Sartre Quotes

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I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

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

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

[E]very man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.

Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.

Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the rest of his days.

I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.Jean-Paul Sartre, Words