Jean Paul Sartre Quotes

Biography: Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, ... more Biography: Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. Known for his works like "Being and Nothingness" and "Nausea," Sartre explored themes of freedom, identity, and human consciousness. He rejected the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964. less

"Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.""Nothingness haunts being.""In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.""A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.""Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.""What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.""All men are prophets or else God does not exist.""To be is to be vulnerable.""The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.""There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.""Life has no meaning except for the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.""My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think, and I can’t stop myself from thinking.""We are condemned to be free.""All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.""When you live alone, your furnishings, your house, are always a mirror of your soul.""One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.""It is not enough to want, one has to act.""Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.""Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.""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."

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