Way Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

16 Way quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean‑Paul Sartre’s sixteen reflections on the Way probe freedom and personal responsibility. The concise format lets you taste existential thought without feeling overwhelmed, perfect for a quick philosophical pause.

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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

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Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

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I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I…

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There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted.…

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For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature…

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Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or…

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Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought…

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On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their…

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He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's…

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I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but…

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The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the…

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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse,…

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Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that…

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

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

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“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.”

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“she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me. It seems funny. Yet…

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[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

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I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

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When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

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“She smiled. First I lost the memory of her eyes, then the memory of her long body. I kept her smile as long as…

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Life is a useless passion.

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The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

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This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.…

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“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…

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“If I am not mistaken, if all the signs which have been amassed are precursors of a new overthrow in my life, well then…

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“I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . .…

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...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...

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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

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