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Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-1980] French

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

God, Men, Alone, Brainy, Science, Truth, War, Age, Best, Chance, Death, Dreams, Failure, Fear, Finance, Freedom, History, Intelligence, Leadership, Life, Nature, Poetry, Politics, Respect, Time, Trust, Women, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.	Leadership, Time	101
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.	Alone	102
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.	Freedom	103
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.		104
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.	War	105
Hell is other people.		106
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.		107
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.	Best, Work	108
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.	Life	109
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.		110
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.	Alone	111
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.		112
Acting is happy agony.		113
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.		114
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.		115
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.		116
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.		117
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.		118
Life begins on the other side of despair.		119
Words are loaded pistols.		120
We must act out passion before we can feel it.		121
Existence precedes and rules essence.		122
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.	Dreams, Truth	123
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.		124
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.		125
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.	God	126
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.	Chance	201
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.	Women	202
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.	Failure	203
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.	Men	204
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.	Fear	205
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.		206
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.		207
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.	God, Men, Truth	208
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.	God, Men, Science	209
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.		210
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.		211
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.	Death	212
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.		213
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.	War	214
I hate victims who respect their executioners.	Respect	215
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.		216
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.	Nature	217
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.		218
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.		219
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.		220
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.		221
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.	Politics, Science	222
Commitment is an act, not a word.		223
We do not judge the people we love.	Brainy	224
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.	Age, History, Poetry	225
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.		226
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?		301
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.		302
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.		303
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.	Intelligence, Trust	304
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.		305
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.		306
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.		307
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.	Finance	308
I confused things with their names: that is belief.		309
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.		310
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.		311
It is only in our decisions that we are important.	Brainy	312
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.		313
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.		314
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.		315
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.		316
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.		317
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.		318
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.		319

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