Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre is a French existentialist philosopher whose words have traveled far beyond their original audience. Whether reflecting on God or Men, Jean-Paul Sartre brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Our collection holds 37 quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre, each offering a different angle on God, Men, War, Truth, and Science. A line that stays with you: "The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best."

“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.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Alone

All Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Failure

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Life

“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.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

War

“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Dreams

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Finance

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Time

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God

“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.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Death

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God

“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Respect

“What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God

“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

War

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Fear

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Best

“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.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Age

“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.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Women

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Men