Jean-paul Sartre

Quotes

• “Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly,...”
• “We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover th...”
• “I had gotten very much involved in the writings of the so-called Existentialists. Camus. Sartre. I retreated into myself...”
• “As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that r...”
• “I am responsible for everything ... except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefor...”
• “I was your luxury. For nineteen years I have been put in your man's world and was forbidden to touch anything and you ma...”
• “You are a tiny little girl, Electra. Other little girls dreamed of being the richest or the most beautiful women of all....”
• “The homosexual never thinks of himself when someone is branded in his presence with the name homosexual. ...His sexual t...”
• “He was a generous and courageous man. He always defended the cause of the unfortunate, of the exploited, and of the oppr...”
• “A man who belongs to some communist or revolutionary society wills certain concrete ends, which imply the will to freedo...”
• “One of the causes of the popularity of Marxism among educated people was the fact that in its simple form it was very ea...”
• “First, what do we mean by anguish? The existentialist frankly states that man is in anguish. His meaning is as follows-W...”
• “And we feel that the hero has lived all the details of this night like annunciations, promises, or even that he lived on...”
• “But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finall...”
• “I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite ...”
• “Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of be...”
• “That is precisely what we should have expected, since Genet wants to live simultaneously creation, destruction, the impo...”
• “He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivoc...”
• “Dostoevsky once wrote: "If God did not exist, everything would be permitted"; and that, for existentialism, is the start...”
• “He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already dis...”
• “I grasp at each second, trying to suck it dry: nothing happens which I do not seize, which I do not fix forever in mysel...”
• “The strangest mores of the most of-the-way societies will, in spite of everything, be relatively comprehensible to the p...”
• “Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will eve...”
• “Jean-Paul Sartre called fossil fuels "capital bequeathed to mankind by other living beings"; they are quite literally th...”
• “You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most c...”
• “I like [his plays] better than his novels. I am not quite sure how I feel about Jean-Paul Sartre -He has something. But ...”
• “Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on ...”
• “When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the frie...”
• “During the last months of the German Occupation in 1944, the young man who was to become France's most controversial con...”
• “When Descartes said, "Conquer yourself rather than the world," what he meant was, at bottom, - the same - that we should...”
• “In some places the metropolis makes do with paying a clique of feudal overlords; in others, it has fabricated a fake bou...”
• “I came to claim my kingdom and you refused me because I was not one of you. Now I am one of you, my subjects, we are bou...”
• “I, for my part, do not conceive an act as having causes, and I consider myself satisfied when I have found in it not its...”
• “The Frenchman Jean-Paul ... Sartre I remember now was - his last name had a dialectical - mind good as a machine for cyb...”
• “I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better...”
• “What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did...”
• “It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order...”
• “Your crystal? That's silly. Whom do you think you are fooling? Come on, everyone knows that I threw the baby out of the ...”
• “Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?Hugo: No.Karsky: It is very pro...”
• “I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wante...”
• “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 was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we ...”
• “They made me take cod liver oil: that is the height of luxury: a medicine to make you hungry while the others, in the st...”
• “Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefer...”
• “His obedience is real since he really and truly fulfills his mission, since he runs real risks in order to carry out the...”
• “Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't po...”
• “Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himse...”
• “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 t...”
• “The Critique of Dialectical Reason is the magnificent and pathetic attempt by a man of the nineteenth century to think t...”
• “I felt less alone when I didn't know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of m...”