Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
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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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As for us, my little friend, we entered the Communist Party because we were tired of dying of hunger.
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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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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 tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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The consciousness of being betrayed is to the collective consciousness of a sacred group what a certain form of schizophrenia is to the individual…it is a form of madness.
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
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We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.
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This inner revolution is realistic because it maintains itself deliberately within the framework of existing institutions; the oppressed reckon with the real situation.
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They are in bad faith - they are afraid - and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls.
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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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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
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Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
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Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.
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A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
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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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Since he is unable to be the beloved, he will become the lover.
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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
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It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!