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
food people breakfast
Hell is other people at breakfast.
vegetables soul carrots
You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
responsibility might existentialism
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
graduation freedom responsibility
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
fake-people hate judging
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
birthday philosophy race
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
travel adventure funny-travel
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
decision important
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
dream art truth
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
failure thinking battle
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
writing portraits myth
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
philosophy philosophical want
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
teacher teaching philosophical
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
confused names belief
I confused things with their names: that is belief.