“All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
Failure
“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.”
AloneAll Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
Freedom“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
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.”
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.”
War“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”
Dreams“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”
Finance“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”
Time“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”
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.”
Death“That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.”
God“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”
Respect“What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.”
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.”
God“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”
War“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”
Fear“The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.”
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.”
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.”
Women“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”
Men