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
french-philosopher illusion life loose meaning moment
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
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.
confuse dreamers truth
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
appears defines existence himself man means meant precedes saying thrust toward turns wills
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. ... Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence.Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
kissing eggs evil
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
philosophical meaning-of-life
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
inevitable
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
fire people farce
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
spring cutting use
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
food people breakfast
Hell is other people at breakfast.
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.
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.