Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. — Jean-Paul Sartre
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. — Jean-Paul Sartre
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Life begins on the other side of despair. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. — Jean-Paul Sartre
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. — Jean-Paul Sartre
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence precedes and rules essence. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources? — Jean-Paul Sartre
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. — Jean-Paul Sartre
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. — Jean-Paul Sartre
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical… — Ferdinand de Saussure
I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all. — Greta Scacchi
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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