Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes And Sayings

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it, saying that he always declined official honours and that “a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution”.

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

Only The Guy Who Isn't Rowing Has Time To Rock The Boat.

Man Is Condemned To Be Free; Because Once Thrown Into The World, He Is Responsible For Everything He Does.

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

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

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.

There Are Two Types Of Poor People, Those Who Are Poor Together And Those Who Are Poor Alone. The First Are The True Poor, The Others Are Rich People Out Of Luck.

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.

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.

I Hate Victims Who Respect Their Executioners.

Words Are More Treacherous And Powerful Than We Think.

Man Is Fully Responsible For His Nature And His Choices.

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

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

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

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.

She Believed In Nothing; Only Her Skepticism Kept Her From Being An Atheist.

Commitment Is An Act, Not A Word.

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.

We Do Not Judge The People We Love.

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

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

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

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.

Acting Is Happy Agony.

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.

I Confused Things With Their Names: That Is Belief.

God Is Absence. God Is The Solitude Of Man.

It Is Only In Our Decisions That We Are Important.

Three O'clock Is Always Too Late Or Too Early For Anything You Want To Do.

To Eat Is To Appropriate By Destruction.

Once You Hear The Details Of Victory, It Is Hard To Distinguish It From A Defeat.

Fascism Is Not Defined By The Number Of Its Victims, But By The Way It Kills Them.

If A Victory Is Told In Detail, One Can No Longer Distinguish It From A Defeat.

All That I Know About My Life, It Seems, I Have Learned In Books.

What Do I Care About Jupiter? Justice Is A Human Issue, And I Do Not Need A God To Teach It To Me.

A Lost Battle Is A Battle One Thinks One Has Lost.

I Am Not Virtuous. Our Sons Will Be If We Shed Enough Blood To Give Them The Right To Be.

The Existentialist Says At Once That Man Is Anguish.