Nature Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Perhaps it’s inevitable; perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all, or impersonating what one is. That would be terrible,’…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer;…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“By extending the idea of natural law to the economic sphere - an inevitable but fundamental error - they (18th century philosophes)…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“It looked like a colour, but also... like a bruise or a secretion, like an oozing-and something else, an odour, for example,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know…

— Jean-Paul Sartre