Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

28 quotes

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Experience

All Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

“We do not judge the people we love.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Love

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Failure

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Men

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Finance

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Intelligence

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

War

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God

“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Nature

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Life

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Time

“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

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Dreams