Jean-Paul Sartre quotes - page 3

It is only in our decisions that we are important. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. View quote
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Man is a useless passion. View quote
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I confused things with their names: that is belief. View quote
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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. View quote
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. View quote
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Commitment is an act, not a word. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. View quote
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Existence precedes and rules essence. View quote
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Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing its up to you to give it a meaning and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. View quote
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I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. View quote
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted. View quote
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Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it. View quote
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As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction. View quote
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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing. View quote
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To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all. View quote
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In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence - as not-bound to life. View quote
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Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist. View quote
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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
In love, one and one are one. View quote
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all. View quote
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God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man. View quote
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But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a vertiable revolution takes place. View quote
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