Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me. It seems funny. Yet… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“She smiled. First I lost the memory of her eyes, then the memory of her long body. I kept her smile as long as… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can’t imagine… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“If I am not mistaken, if all the signs which have been amassed are precursors of a new overthrow in my life, well then… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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