Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Jupiter: I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers?Aegisteus: Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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His business is here, it is here that he is despised and vilified, it is here that he must carry out his undertaking.
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Dostoevsky once wrote: 'If God did not exist, everything would be permitted'; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.
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Catherine: Why commit Evil?Goetz: Because Good has already been done.Catherine: Who has done it?Goetz: God the Father. I, on the other hand, am improvising.
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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 were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
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I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men - and to them alone - to let him flee or to destroy him.
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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'Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.'
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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 touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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Only a neutral, who is indifferent to the stake and perhaps to all stakes, can appreciate aesthetically the grandeur of a fine disaster
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
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Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.
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I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.
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…in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.
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I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail.