I leave you the best Jean-Paul Sartre quotes (1905-1980),pioneering intellectual and defender of existentialism who championed leftist causes in France and other countries.
He wrote several books, including the very influential Being and Nothingness, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964, although he rejected it, claiming that accepting it would be like putting oneself at the service of that institution..
He had a relationship with the notable intellectual Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, both in lifestyle and in thought..
His numerous works had and still have a great influence on sociology, critical thinking and literary studies. You may also be interested in these quotes from philosophers or these from famous writers.
-Today we know how everything is done except live.
-If you feel lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
-It is solely up to you to give your life meaning.
-Man is what he decides to be for himself.
-To know what our life is worth, it does not hurt to risk it from time to time.
-Life ceases to have meaning the moment the illusion that it is eternal is lost.
-We are but our own decisions.
-There may be more beautiful times, but this time is ours.
-Life begins on the other side of despair.
-I am my thought, that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think and I can't stop thinking.
-There is no reality except in action.
-As far as man is concerned, I am not interested in what he is, but what he is capable of becoming.
-Man is condemned to be free, since once in the world, he is responsible for all his actions.
-Death is the continuation of my life without me.
-Life is nothing but a useless passion.
-The worst thing about being lied to is knowing that you didn't even deserve the truth.
-Words are loaded pistols.
-Non-existence lies hidden in the heart of every being, like a worm.
-In love, one and one equals one.
-You are you, your life, and nothing else.
-It seems that everything I know about my life I have learned from books.
-Throughout my life I have come to realize that all of our problems stem from our inability to use clear and concise language.
-My love, you are not "one thing in my life", not even the most important thing, because my life no longer belongs to me, because my life is you.
-You can sew your lips or cut your tongue, but can you cease to exist? Can you stop thinking?
-It is more dangerous to be a good journalist than a bad murderer.
-The emptier the hourglass of our life, the more clearly we should see through it.
-Commitment is an act, not a word.
-Everything that exists is born without reason, prolongs its life despite weakness and dies by chance.
-It may be unavoidable. We may actually have to choose between being nothing or pretending to be who we are.
-There is nothing more important than a book. For me, the library is a temple, and reading a religion.
-Do you think I count the days? There is only one day left, one that always repeats itself. It is given to us at sunrise and it is taken from us at sunset.
-Believing is summed up in confusing things with your name.
-Once freedom has enlightened the heart of man, the gods have no power over him.
-You can only hurt yourself through others. We can never harm ourselves directly.
-It is the duty of every individual to do what he wants to do, to think what he wants to think, not to answer to anyone except himself, and to question every idea and every individual..
-In football, everything is complicated by the presence of the rival team.
-Existence is prior to essence, and rules over it.
-I want to die decently.
-When you understand the details of victory, it is difficult to distinguish it from defeat.
-We are only important in our decisions.
-Your judgment judges and defines you.
-I have never tolerated the idea of someone expecting something from me.
-Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.
-The objective of language is to communicate, to impart the results that one has obtained. As I speak, I reveal a situation. I reveal it to myself and others so that I can change it.
-Like every dreamer, I confused disappointment with the truth.
-I hate victims who respect their executioners.
-I will smile, and my smile will penetrate your pupils, and God knows what it will become.
-I have been able to verify that the human heart is empty and tasteless everywhere except in books.
-When the rich go to war, it is the poor who die.
-Man is alone, abandoned on Earth, in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other goal than the one he sets for himself.
-Why is it so important that we all agree?
-When someone has expected something from me, I have always wanted to do just the opposite.
-Three o'clock is always too late or too early for what you want to do.
-Man will not be able to do anything of value until he understands that he cannot count on anyone except himself.
-Life has no a priori meaning. The meaning of your life depends on you, and the value of your life is nothing but the meaning you choose..
-Forget you? How immature! I feel you in my bones. Your silence deafens me.
-Soft smiling faces everywhere, but doom in their stares.
-There is no point in thinking about complaining, since nothing external has decided what we feel, or what we live, or what we are.
-I guess it's laziness that makes the world the same day after day.
-Man tends to tell his life more than to live it. He sees everything through what he tells, and tries to live his life as if it were a story. But we have to choose between living our life or telling it.
-Only the one who is not moving forward has time to bother.
-I cannot deny that God does not exist. But I can't forget that my whole existence cries out for a god.
-I exist, that's all. And I find it extremely unpleasant.
-We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are. That's the truth.
-Existence is an imperfection.
-Not being tied to my own words makes my thoughts blurry most of the time. That is why I forget them almost immediately..
-People who live in society have learned to see themselves in mirrors as they are seen by their friends. I have no friends, is that why I look so naked?
-Man is condemned to be free because he did not create himself, but was put in this world.
-Nothing happens while we live. The scenery changes, people come and go. That's all.
-There is no beginning of anything. The days pile up one after the other without order or concert. An endless monotonous addition of days.
-At the moment of death, our life is always complete.
-Man is not so much the sum of what he has, but rather the sum of what he does not have; than I could have.
-The consciousness that says "I exist" is not the consciousness that thinks.
-We don't judge the people we love.
-Generosity is nothing more than the desire to possess. Everything that is abandoned, everything that is given, is enjoyed much more by giving it away. To give is to possessively enjoy what is given.
-There are two types of poor: those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The former are the true poor, while the latter are rich who have had no luck..
-No finite term makes sense without an infinite point of reference.
-Politics is a science. With it you can show that you are right and that others are wrong.
-You are getting closer and closer to becoming the corpse you will be and still, I still love you.
-I find myself alone in the midst of happy and reasonable voices. All of these people waste their time explaining and reaffirming that they agree with each other. I wonder why it is so important to think the same things all together?
-Starting to love someone is like starting a great company. You have to have energy, generosity and blindness. There may even be a moment in the beginning where you have to jump across an abyss and if you think about it too much, you don't..
-I am the only person through my thoughts that I turn away from nowhere to which I aspire.
-Man can do nothing unless he has first realized that he must have no one but himself. Man is alone, abandoned on earth, in the midst of his infinite responsibilities and without help.
-What people who dedicate their lives to university and research should learn is to put all their effort into learning all the universal techniques for the service of the mass society..
-It is only the acts that decide on what has been wanted.
-It is a deep boredom, very deep. The truth is that the deep heart of existence is the same thing that I am made of.
-Consciousness can always transcend the existing one, not towards its being, but towards the sense of this being.
-Many of the men know, in effect, that the objective of their search is actually “being” and to the extent that they possess this knowledge, they avoid appropriating things for themselves and try to carry out the symbolic appropriation of “being- in-itself ”of things.
-Therefore, it does not make any sense to think about complaining, because there is nothing strange that has been in charge of deciding what we feel, what we live or what we are.
-You can shut your mouth, cut your tongue, but can you avoid existing? The truth is that you can never stop your thoughts.
-So this is the closest thing to hell. I would never have imagined it. Do you remember everything they told us about torture chambers, fire, and brimstone? They are just old tales! No need to be a fan of red hot, hell is the other people!!
-Many times, this is the reason people are deceived: The man who is capable of telling stories, can see everything that happens to him through them and tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But what you really have to do is choose: either you live or you count.
-I'm going to answer the question that mortified you so much: my love, you are not just "one thing in my life", because my life no longer belongs to me. Now you, it's always me.
-At that moment, she smiled and told me with great emotion: "Shine like a tiny diamond" and try to turn you into an eternal being.
-Over time, we become a freedom that chooses, but only chooses to be free. For that reason, we are condemned to freedom.
-You can never go back more than a record can reverse. What is the reason for everything that happens? Well, after much analysis, I realize that it has guided me up to this moment.
-I felt so horribly lonely that I considered suicide. What stopped me from doing so was the idea that absolutely no one would mourn my death, and that at the end of the day, I would be even more alone in death than in life itself..
-The body is not linked to consciousness, it is a purely psychological perception.
-In the end, I am the architect of my own being, my own character and destiny. There is no use pretending what could have been, because I am what I have done, and nothing more.
-Violence is not a means to an end, but a voluntary choice to reach the end, by any kind of means..
-Help other people understand that reality does count and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream.
-Sometimes you die too soon or too late. However, all life is complete and full of emotions at that moment, remember to keep in mind that you are your life and nothing else.
-A flame is capable of calling in your heart. That is why I feel that when I am alone, I turn off.
-I want you to know that it is a great job to start loving someone. You have to have character, kindness and also blindness. There is even a time when you have to jump over a cliff and if you think about it, you end up not doing it..
-For me there are no Mondays or Sundays: there are only days that go by in disorder and then we observe a sudden lightning like this.
-When an adventure happens to me, I wonder what happens to myself and why I am there, many times I end up as happy as the hero of a novel.
-There is a universe behind and in front of a book. You know the end is near when you close the last book and ask yourself: And now, what's next??
-Anything else would be better than this anguish that I carry in my mind, of this pain that bites and that never hurts enough.
-The main objective of language is to communicate to share with others the results that have been achieved.
-Man exists, appears and only afterwards is he able to define himself, because at first, man is nothing, only later will he become something and he himself will be in charge of having done what he will do..
-I am always open to sudden transformations because only after a wonderful day, can a real revolution occur.
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