Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes And Sayings

I Am No Longer Sure Of Anything. If I Satiate My Desires, I Sin But I Deliver Myself From Them; If I Refuse To Satisfy Them, They Infect The Whole Soul.

Neither Sex, Without Some Fertilization Of The Complimentary Characters Of The Other, Is Capable Of The Highest Reaches Of Human Endeavor.

Life Begins On The Other Side Of Despair.

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.

If You Are Lonely When You're Alone, You Are In Bad Company.

We Must Act Out Passion Before We Can Feel It.

Words Are Loaded Pistols.

Like All Dreamers, I Mistook Disenchantment For Truth.

No Finite Point Has Meaning Without An Infinite Reference Point.

Existence Precedes And Rules Essence.

Every Existing Thing Is Born Without Reason, Prolongs Itself Out Of Weakness, And Dies By Chance.

Evil Is The Product Of The Ability Of Humans To Make Abstract That Which Is Concrete.

That God Does Not Exist, I Cannot Deny, That My Whole Being Cries Out For God I Cannot Forget.

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.

Freedom Is What You Do With What's Been Done To You.

All Human Actions Are Equivalent And All Are On Principle Doomed To Failure.

As Far As Men Go, It Is Not What They Are That Interests Me, But What They Can Become.

I Have No Need For Good Souls: An Accomplice Is What I Wanted.

Fear? If I Have Gained Anything By Damning Myself, It Is That I No Longer Have Anything To Fear.

You Must Be Afraid, My Son. That Is How One Becomes An Honest Citizen.

I Tell You In Truth: All Men Are Prophets Or Else God Does Not Exist.

I Do Not Believe In God; His Existence Has Been Disproved By Science. But In The Concentration Camp, I Learned To Believe In Men.

Life Has No Meaning The Moment You Lose The Illusion Of Being Eternal.

It Disturbs Me No More To Find Men Base, Unjust, Or Selfish Than To See Apes Mischievous, Wolves Savage, Or The Vulture Ravenous.

One Is Still What One Is Going To Cease To Be And Already What One Is Going To Become. One Lives One's Death, One Dies One's Life.

Generosity Is Nothing Else Than A Craze To Possess. All Which I Abandon, All Which I Give, I Enjoy In A Higher Manner Through The Fact That I Give It Away. To Give Is To Enjoy Possessively The Object Which One Gives.

There Is Only One Day Left, Always Starting Over: It Is Given To Us At Dawn And Taken Away From Us At Dusk.

Total War Is No Longer War Waged By All Members Of One National Community Against All Those Of Another. It Is Total... Because It May Well Involve The Whole World.

Man Is Fully Responsible For His Nature And His Choices.

Words Are More Treacherous And Powerful Than We Think.

I Hate Victims Who Respect Their Executioners.

If Literature Isn't Everything, It's Not Worth A Single Hour Of Someone's Trouble.

My Thought Is Me: That Is Why I Cannot Stop Thinking. I Exist Because I Think I Cannot Keep From Thinking.

We Do Not Know What We Want And Yet We Are Responsible For What We Are - That Is The Fact.

One Cannot Become A Saint When One Works Sixteen Hours A Day.

Politics Is A Science. You Can Demonstrate That You Are Right And That Others Are Wrong.

Commitment Is An Act, Not A Word.

We Do Not Judge The People We Love.

When The Rich Wage War, It's The Poor Who Die.

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 By Creating Situations That Can Be Expressed Or Transcended Only Through Poetry.

Who Can Exhaust A Man? Who Knows A Man's Resources?

For An Occurrence To Become An Adventure, It Is Necessary And Sufficient For One To Recount It.

When Rich People Fight Wars With One Another, Poor People Are The Ones To Die.

One Always Dies Too Soon Or Too Late. And Yet, Life Is There, Finished: The Line Is Drawn, And It Must All Be Added Up. You Are Nothing Other Than Your Life.

Ah! Yes, I Know: Those Who See Me Rarely Trust My Word: I Must Look Too Intelligent To Keep It.

I Say A Murder Is Abstract. You Pull The Trigger And After That You Do Not Understand Anything That Happens.

Better To Have Beasts That Let Themselves Be Killed Than Men Who Run Away.

Hell Is Other People.

Acting Is A Question Of Absorbing Other People's Personalities And Adding Some Of Your Own Experience.

The Poor Don't Know That Their Function In Life Is To Exercise Our Generosity.