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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Fear

All Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Best

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Failure

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Nature

“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

“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

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Fear

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Politics

“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

“We do not judge the people we love.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Love

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

War

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Dreams

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Time