God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct… — 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
Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe. — 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
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total...… — 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
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world? — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards… — 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