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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'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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What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
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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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such mad confidence within despair.
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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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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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Thus, Beauty is neither an appearance nor a being, but a relationship: the transformation of being into appearance
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Since he is unable to be the beloved, he will become the lover.
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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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Ma pensée, c'est moi: voilà pourquoi je ne peux pas m'arrêter. J'existe parce que je pense … et je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser.
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'This is the contradiction of racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a dog, one must first recognize him as a man.'
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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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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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The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes
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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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For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.
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I, for my part, do not conceive an act as having causes, and I consider myself satisfied when I have found in it not its ‘factors’ but the general themes which it organizes: for our decisions gather into new syntheses and on new occasions the leitmotif that governs our life
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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.