1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher
All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Action]
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Meaning of Life]
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Life and Living]
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Life and Living]
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Fascism]
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Freedom]
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 – [Generosity]
Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Hell]
I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world… in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Responsibility]
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Respectability]
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Literature]
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Loneliness]
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Decisions]
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Despair]
Man is a useless passion.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Humankind]
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Responsibility]
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Victory]
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 – [Existence]
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Generosity]
Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre – [Time and Time Management]