Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

About Jean-Paul Sartre:

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was 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.
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...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to.

Jean-Paul Sartre

He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Tu ești pentru mine relația necesară. Toți ceilalți sunt întâmplători.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.

Jean-Paul Sartre

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is free rather than man is freedom.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Pilihlah, manusia yang bebas atau mengakui Tuhan sebagai sumber nilai. Bila dipilih yang terakhir manusia tersebut tidak bebas, mutlak.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods. None of this is so important, to be sure. The wor...

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In love, one and one are one.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Et voilà, mon passé n’est plus qu’un trou énorme. Mon présent: cette bonne au corsage noir qui rêve près du comptoir, ce petit bonhomme. Tout ce que je sais de ma vie, il me semble que je l’ai appris dans des livres.

Jean-Paul Sartre

But I can't see anything any more: however much I search the past I can only retrieve scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, nor whether they are remembered or invented.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Author Bio

  • NameJean-Paul Sartre
  • DescriptionFrench existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic
  • AliasesJean-Paul Sartre; Jean Paul Sartre
  • BornJune 21, 1905
  • DiedApril 15, 1980
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Philosopher; Writer; Novelist; Screenwriter; Political Activist; Biographer; Literary Critic; Autobiographer
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature