The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as… — 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