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
philosophical murder abstract
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
philosophical taken sunset
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
want said dies
I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.
temptation bears impatience
At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.
fate principles action
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
mistake alive horror
To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.
race endeavor humans
Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.
oysters shrimp matter
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
hate generations dry
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
years differences hours
Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
missing honey miss-me
Some of these days, Oh, you'll miss me honey
ideas maintaining prove
Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?
nature eye escaping
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
filled-up existentialism plunge
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.