« All Only Quotes · Jean-Paul Sartre's Page
Only Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
- I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured.…
- It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential…
- Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself
- We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I…
- A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.
- I know only one Church: it is the society of men.
- God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who…
- I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
- Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
- There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
- She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
- Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch…
- It is only in our decisions that we are important.
- In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone…
- One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
- Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.
- What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only…
- Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the…
- We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
- It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one…
- We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to…
More Only Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle