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."

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom

All Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Respect

“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

“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Men

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Fear

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Alone

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Nature

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God

“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

“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

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Men

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Experience

“We do not judge the people we love.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Love

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Time

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

War

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Failure

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Life

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Politics