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
men sheep kingdoms
A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
certain anguish
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
philosophical men
Man is condemned to be free
believe passion men
[M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. The Existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never agree that a sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts and is therefore an excuse. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion.
shapes forget my-thoughts
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.
smoking knows
I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.
thinking my-thoughts
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
human-nature introspection
Introspection is always retrospection
humility institutions refuse
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
tree together criticism
Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
boredom long soul
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
life world labor
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.
hands ideas creating
I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.
dream blow want
The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.