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
choice condemned free
I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, all the time, even when I think I have no choice to make.
french-philosopher illusion life loose meaning moment
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
confuse dreamers truth
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
inevitable
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
spring cutting use
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
fake-people hate judging
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
travel adventure funny-travel
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
our-actions way responsible
Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.
judgement may existence
Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.
humility institutions refuse
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
human-nature introspection
Introspection is always retrospection
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.