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
now-and-then glamour folks
A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.
motivation feelings artistic-creation
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.
support individuality depth
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.
father eye thinking
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?
left
Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?
lonely philosophy loneliness
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
want nausea existentialism
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
boredom too-much enough
What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.
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.
nature roots profound
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
suicide men attention
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man.
fighting evil tempted
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.
existentialism existence
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
summer june lovely
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June