Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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Since he is unable to be the beloved, he will become the lover.
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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I know nothing, I am neither woman nor girl; I have been living in a dream and when someone kissed me, it made me want to laugh. Now I am here before you, it seems as though I have just awakened and it is morning.
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men - and to them alone - to let him flee or to destroy him.
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Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
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I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
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in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
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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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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
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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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Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
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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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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
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All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.
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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 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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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!
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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 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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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.