60 result(s) for Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes.
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
"Like all dreamers, I confuse disenchantment with truth."
"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."
"The worst of it is not that one fails to become great, but that one fails to become small."
"I confuse the present with my childhood, the real with the one I lived in my imagination."
"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."
"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
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"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."
"Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."
"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself."
"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."
"We are our choices."
"You are -- your life, and nothing else."
"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."
"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."
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
"You must be like a child and not be afraid of your own dreams."
"Man is all the time losing himself in what he is not."
"Every word has consequences. Every silence, too."
"Words are loaded pistols."
"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."
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"Life begins on the other side of despair."
"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."
"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
"The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best."
"Those who hide their complete freedom from themselves out of a spirit of seriousness or by means of deterministic excuses, I shall call cowards."
"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."
"Freedom is what we do with what is done to us."
"In love, one and one are one."
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are."
"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."
"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have."
"One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else."
"To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while."
"Faith is a character trait, an attachment to a value that is independent of the race for facts."
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"Commitment is an act, not a word."
"There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours."
"I confused things with their names: that is belief."
"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."
"When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die."
"Existence precedes essence."
"Man is condemned to be free."
"Hell is other people."
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
"I am my choices."
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
"Man is what he wills himself to be."
"To do is to be."
"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."
"I do not think therefore I am a moustache."
"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company."
"Man cannot be other than what he is."
"Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves."
"In love, one is neither the one loved nor the lover, but the one who loves."
"Man is a useless passion."
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
"Each word was a rebellious act."
"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."
"Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place."
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