Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul-Charles-Aymard Sartrewas a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 June 1905
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
failure thinking battle
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
hurt pain agony
Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.
kissing eggs evil
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
men existentialist anguish
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
decision important
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
philosophical meaning-of-life
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
inspirational summer difficult
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
birthday philosophy race
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.
thinking diaries danger
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
men solitude absence
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
art philosophy responsibility
Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.
believe order long
So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
fire people farce
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
inevitable
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.