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."

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Finance

All Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Dreams

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Fear

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Failure

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Men

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

War

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Experience

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Intelligence

“God is absence. God is the solitude of man.”

— 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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Politics

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Alone

“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

“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Respect

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Best

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God