FastSaying

Man is what he wills himself to be.


Jean-Paul Sartre

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
THOM GUNN I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Words
CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it h...
ALAN ALDA Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmar...
EVGENY MOROZOV I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says t...
UNKNOWN Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 It is clear that he does not pray, wh...
THOMAS AQUINAS The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me t...
JERRY HALL Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo
PAUL KRASSNER ...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot co...
JAMES ALLEN Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Pa...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs n...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himse...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himse...
ALEXANDER BELL A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of hims...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himse...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Jean-Luc glanced at the coach. "Who is that man? What is that machine?"
"It's a dunking booth."...
KERRELYN SPARKS We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemn...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I think Mad Dog's got a great poker face. He wills himself to do things. There'd be a lot of other p...
LEO MAZZONE Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A man can do all things if he but wills them.
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI A man can do all things if he but wills them.
LEON ALBERTI A man is as old as he feels himself to be.
ENGLISH PROVERB The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU One man alone can not change things, if this is what he tells himself, but a man who tells himself h...
RYAN THACKER Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of ...
FELIX E. SCHELLING What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ...
CATHERINE CROWE The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - He first individualizes
HENRIK IBSEN The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
HENRIK IBSEN When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
PAUL TILLICH Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny
PAUL TILLICH God wills, Man dreams, the Work is born.
FERNANDO PESSOA Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.
TOBA BETA The more primitive a man is the better he believes himself to be.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
THOMAS MANN The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
CHARLES H. PARKHURST I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himse...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, tur...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A man really determines himself by what he does.
VIN SCULLY A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is...
ALEC WAUGH Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tel...
PABLO PICASSO I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a phil...
TREVOR DONOVAN A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishe...
JASON ZEBEHAZY In the future, rather than focus on healing, I plan to focus on Jesus Himself, and let Him heal whom...
BENNY HINN What is a man advantaged if he gain the whole world and lose himself
SUNDAY ADELAJA What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always ...
ROBIN G. COLLINGWOOD The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lac...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he though...
BUCK OWENS What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a ...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
THOMAS PAINE A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
AUGUSTUS HARE The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than o...
CRISS JAMI The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and evermore he takes the Tool of Th...
JAMES ALLEN Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
JOHANN VON GOETHE I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he th...
BUCK OWENS When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, eac...
MICHAEL DE SAINTAMO I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it
GERARD GROOTE When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to con...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. ...
JEAN PAUL What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when,...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In the long run a man becomes what he purposes, and gains for himself what he really desires
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE That's Paul. That's what he does.
AUDRA FRANKLIN Death ne'er can fail the man who wills to die
SENECA The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra
KURT VONNEGUT God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.
SAMUEL DANIEL What a man has made himself, he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or...
CATHERINE CROWE I recall standing out in left field after Paul did what he did, thinking about, man, what does that ...
SCOTT PODSEDNIK A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is...
ALEC WAUGH If a man is cruel, he destroy himself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of hi...
LEO TOLSTOY A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of hi...
LEO TOLSTOY For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly f...
PAUL ANKA The best friend to a man is none than he himself.
ANUJ SOMANY In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only tw...
BHAGAT SINGH And that unless above himself he canErect himself, how poor a thing is man.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
CONFUCIUS What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
CONFUCIUS

More Jean-Paul Sartre

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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 Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Hell is other people.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Три часът. В три винаги е твърде късно или твърде рано з...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The existentialist
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Hell is—other people!
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying bore...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time expl...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their fr...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We are our choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We must act out passion before we can feel it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy i...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I hate victims who respect their executioners.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not judge the people we love
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Acting is happy agony.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it mu...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Commitment is an act, not a word.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp,...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not judge the people we love.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The fi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves sav...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the m...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Words are loaded pistols.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a l...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Existence precedes and rules essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every man is condemned to freedom.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once freedom lights is beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE In love, one and one are one.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE For several years more I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich make war it's the poor that die
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to...
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 All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You are -- your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will beco...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to ref...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had rise...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . bu...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There ar...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Aunque me quisiera con toda su alma, sería igualmente un amor de muerta.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I ta...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experienc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything has been figured out, except how to live
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumble...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass itto...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at on...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of anoth...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Ni siquiera sufrí; me sentía vacío.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Don’t be afraid; I’ll keep looking at you for ever and ever, without a flutter of my eyelids, an...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: There...you know the way the catch larks - with a mirror? I'm your lark-mirror,my dear, and yo...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE L'enfer, c'est les autres [Hell is other people]
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Oh, what a nuisance you are! I'm giving you my mouth, my arms, my whole body - and everything could ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Je ne suis rien que le regard qui te voit, que cette pensée incolore qui te pense.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: What's the matter?

ESTELLE: I feel so queer. Don't you ever get taken that way? Whe...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE On meurt toujours trop tôt ― ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée: le trait est t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Remember you're not alone; you've no right to inflict the sight of your fear on me.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore.Your silence c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as wel...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you sa...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That sta...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must ent...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumble...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's al...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
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 Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might ha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemn...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for hi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Words are loaded pistols
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.

(There is no reality except in action.)
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, wh...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it&...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstanc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,
and I have followed the source of rivers...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at lib...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think tha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, tur...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE آن جا که تمام جامعه بد است، فقط می توان در مبارزه شرکت ک�...
SARTRE JEAN-PAUL Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, so...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE ¿Quieres creer en mí? Te querría entonces más que a mí mismo.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Mientras que tú piensas: agua pura, querida agua pura, solo estaré a medias en este lugar, solo a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles.
Hugo: Men? Why should I love the...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE