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
love judging people
We do not judge the people we love.
heaven my-smile pupils
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
thinking moments my-thoughts
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.
thinking names voice
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.
atheist philosophical atheism
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
giving-up years games
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.
soccer football team
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
mean self dry
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
eternity my-time
...I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity...
thinking tranquility life-death
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
order criticism language
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
thinking moustache
I do not think therefore I am a moustache
death existentialism continuation
Death is a continuation of my life without me...
thinking ideas challenges
The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.