Jean Paul Sartre quotes

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

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.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

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.

We do not judge the people we love.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

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

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.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

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.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

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.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

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.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

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.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

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.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.