Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul-Charles-Aymard Sartrewas a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 June 1905
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
Jean-Paul Sartre quotes about
responsibility destiny men
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
boredom too-much enough
What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.
freedom responsibility men
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
philosophy war philosophical
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
stills
To choose not to choose is still to act.
giving-up years games
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.
soccer football team
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
dream men somewhere-else
God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have anything but his cadaver. Perhaps he slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. Perhaps he was only a dream...God is dead.
philosophy thinking complaining
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
order criticism language
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
philosophical science technology
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
laziness want today
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
philosophical judging evil
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
nature roots profound
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].