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
existentialism destruction appropriate
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
soul desire existentialism
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
lines too-late existentialism
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
filled-up existentialism plunge
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
existentialism nothingness
Nothingness haunts Being.
reality existentialism action
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)
existentialism human-nature there-is-no-god
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
responsibility might existentialism
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
way existentialism wonder
Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
existentialism existence
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
death existence-of-life existentialism
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
thought-provoking pistols existentialism
Words are loaded pistols.
want nausea existentialism
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
death existentialism continuation
Death is a continuation of my life without me...