Jean-Paul Sartre quotes - page 5

You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right? View quote
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What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never use it for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power. View quote
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A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words. View quote
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I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path. View quote
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I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating. View quote
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal.... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space. View quote
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I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary. View quote
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If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything. View quote
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With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all. View quote
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Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe! View quote
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I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me. View quote
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I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just. View quote
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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul. View quote
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. View quote
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I know only one Church: it is the society of men. View quote
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Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse. View quote
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To whomever gives a kiss or a blow Render a kiss or blow But to whomever gives when you are unable to return Offer all the hatred in your heart For you were slaves and he enslaves you. View quote
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. View quote
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Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness. View quote
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves. View quote
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The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist. View quote
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The past is the luxury of proprietors. View quote
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