Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.
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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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Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being
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Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
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His obedience is real since he really and truly fulfills his mission, since he runs real risks in order to carry out the beloved’s orders. But, on the other hand, it is imaginary because he submits only to a creature of his mind.
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I can be twenty women, one hundred, if that’s what you want, all women. Ride with me behind you, I weigh nothing, your horse will not feel me. I want to be your whorehouse!
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away.... To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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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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Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
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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 came to claim my kingdom and you refused me because I was not one of you. Now I am one of you, my subjects, we are bound by blood, and I deserve to be your king. Your sins and your remorse, your mighty anguish, I take all upon myself. Fear your dead no more, they are my dead.
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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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Thus, Beauty is neither an appearance nor a being, but a relationship: the transformation of being into appearance
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Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.
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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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I grasp at each second, trying to suck it dry: nothing happens which I do not seize, which I do not fix forever in myself, nothing, neither the fugitive tenderness of those lovely eyes, nor the noises of the street, nor the false dawn of early morning: and even so the minute passes and I do not hold it back, I like to see it pass.
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L'homme est une passion inutile.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.
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The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.