Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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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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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
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I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Alors, c’est ça l’enfer. Je n'aurais jamais cru... vous vous rappelez: le soufre, le bûcher, le gril... ah! Quelle plaisanterie. Pas besoin de gril, l'enfer, c'est les autres.
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...man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
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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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The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
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Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.
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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 exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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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such mad confidence within despair.
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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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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.