Philosopher · French · 1905 – 1980 · 70 quotes
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher · French · 1905 – 1980
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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.
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
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.
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Words are loaded pistols.
Acting is happy agony.
We do not judge the people we love.
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.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
Hell is other people.
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.
