Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
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I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
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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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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake
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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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Now I am weary and I can no longer tell good from Evil, and I need someone to show me the way.
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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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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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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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'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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I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
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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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The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes
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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
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such mad confidence within despair.
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...man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
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Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.
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You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
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I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.