Quotes by
Jean-Paul Sartre |
1905-1980 , French philosopher
French novelist, playwright, and exponent of Existentialism ( philosophy acclaiming the freedom of the individual human being) and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was also noted for his open relationship with prominent feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, but he declined it.
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Quotations
| • | When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die. 20 |
| • | There are no innocent victims. 17 |
| • | Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. 17 |
| • | There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours. 12 |
| • | You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen. 9 |
| • | Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. 9 |
| • | I hate victims who respect their executioners. 8 |
| • | Everything has been figured out, except how to live. 8 |
| • | Hell is other people. 8 |
| • | Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. 7 |
| • | Man is condemned to be free. 6 |
| • | In love, one and one are one. 6 |
| • | Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. 6 |
| • | Life begins on the other side of despair. 6 |
| • | I love you very much, my dear Beaver. ( last words to his partner Simone de Beauvoir) 5 |
| • | A man is what he wills himself to be. 5 |
| • | Man is a useless passion. 5 |
| • | Nothingness haunts being. 5 |
| • | The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. 5 |
| • | Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. 5 |
| • | I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating. 4 |
| • | Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets. 3 |
| • | All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. 3 |
| • | The past is the luxury of proprietors. 3 |
Personal Stories
| • | If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women, basically. 7 |
| • | I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. 4 |
