Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.
Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.
A doll with skin like that isn't going to mess it up with a revolver shot. [ ... ] Revolvers are meant for crocodile-skins like ours.
If God does not exist, are we provided with any values or commands that could legitimise our behaviour.
People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit - and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea
to vomit - and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea
There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.
Absurd, irreducible; nothing
not even a profound and secret delirium of nature
could explain [a tree root].
not even a profound and secret delirium of nature
could explain [a tree root].
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
M. de Rollebon was my partner; he needed me in order to exist and I needed him so as not to feel my existence.
For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.
For a moment I wondered if I were not going to
love humanity. But, after all, it was their Sunday, not mine.
love humanity. But, after all, it was their Sunday, not mine.
What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.
As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.
When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use.
Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?"
"Yes, naturally.
"Yes, naturally.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.
Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.
I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency ...
You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's
a second nature with me - and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.
a second nature with me - and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.