We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
We do not judge the people we love.
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
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.
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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.
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
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.
If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
