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
inspirational attitude freedom
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
book library important
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
life spiritual witty
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
years differences hours
Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
believe men existence
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
philosophy philosophical want
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
choices our-choices
We are our choices.
life philosophy philosophical
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
consciousness conscious nothingness
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
men purpose action
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
lonely philosophy loneliness
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
silence consequence
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
war valuable reports
It is always more valuable to report the truth.
thinking consciousness
The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.