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
long atheism gone
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
life thinking generosity
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
artist color quality
For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.
philosophical weakness reason
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident
selfish men unjust
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
reflection ideas pairs
Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.
two people leader
There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.
powerful commitment silence
Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.
thinking rooms chaos
When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.
victory deep-thought details
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
crush wall men
It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.
sake authenticity ifs
If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
nature roots profound
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
life exercise generosity
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.