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
humility institutions refuse
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
human-nature introspection
Introspection is always retrospection
two people community
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
stills ifs i-can
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
crush wall men
It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.
kings men soul
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.
subjectivity humans universe
Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.
stupidity choices enough
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
deeds no-love
There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.
love-is overcoming spite
To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.
commitment perspective worry
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
assassins revolutionary good-enough
Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
born dies meaningless
It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.
country police monsters
Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey