A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Acting is happy agony.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Type:
Philosopher
Date of Birth:
1905-06-21
Year of Death:
1980
Nationality:
French |
