Jean-Paul Sartre
Commitment is an act, not a word.Collection: Wisdom
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.Collection: Finance
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.Collection: Women
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.Collection: Time
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.Collection: Science
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.Collection: History
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.Collection: Science
It is only in our decisions that we are important.Collection: Brainy
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.Collection: Men
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.Collection: God
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.Collection: Truth
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.Collection: Life
We do not judge the people we love.Collection: Brainy
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.Collection: Experience
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.Collection: Truth
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.Collection: Failure
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.Collection: War
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.Collection: Chance
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.Collection: Fear
Life begins on the other side of despair.Collection: Life
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.Collection: Best
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.Collection: Freedom
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.Collection: Death
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.Collection: Life
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.Collection: Intelligence
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.Collection: Nature
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.Collection: Alone
I hate victims who respect their executioners.Collection: Respect
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.Collection: Alone
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.Collection: War
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.Collection: God
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Hell is other people.
Acting is happy agony.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Words are loaded pistols.
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.