Essence Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence is prior to essence.

— Anonymous

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Existence takes priority over essence.”

— Jostein Gaarder

I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really…

— Zadie Smith

Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a…

— Hannah Arendt

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

— Ambrose Bierce

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

— Friedrich Engels

“The soul has no "shoulds", "musts", or "have-tos." It doesn't need rules because it knows only connection and flows with what is.”

— Suzanne Giesemann

“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“existence depends on order.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Rules cease to exist once they have outlived their value, but forms live on eternally. There are forms of the novel which impose on…

— Raymond Queneau