Jean-Paul Sartre quotes - page 8

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
We do not judge the people we love. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Acting is happy agony. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
God is absence. God is the solitude of man. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
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. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
You are -- your life, and nothing else. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
We are our choices. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre - Image
Photo: User:T1980, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: French Philosopher
Born: June 21, 1905
Died: April 15, 1980
Quotes count: 371
Wikipedia: Jean-Paul Sartre

Related authors

Simone de Beauvoir - thumbnail
Simone de Beauvoir  185 
French Philosopher
Albert Camus - thumbnail
Albert Camus  488 
French Philosopher
Martin Heidegger  90 
German Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche - thumbnail
Friedrich Nietzsche  855 
German Philosopher
Soren Kierkegaard - thumbnail
Soren Kierkegaard  354 
Danish Theologian
Michel Foucault - thumbnail
Michel Foucault  137 
French Historian
Immanuel Kant - thumbnail
Immanuel Kant  250 
German Philosopher
Karl Marx - thumbnail
Karl Marx  368 
German Philosopher
Edmund Husserl - thumbnail
Edmund Husserl  20 
German Philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - thumbnail
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  126 
German Philosopher