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 risk life-is
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
inspirational drunk leader
Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
inspiration men each-day
Man must be invented each day
inspirational summer difficult
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
inspirational life philosophical
Life begins on the other side of despair.
inspirational commitment interesting
Commitment is an act, not a word.
love inspirational undone
In love, one and one are one.
inspirational learning growth
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
inspirational philosophical passion
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
inspirational attitude freedom
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
assumed cannot choose choosing constitute disability fact means necessary obstacle revealed suffer surpass
Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass ittoward my own projects, I make of it the necessary obstacle for my being and I cannot be crippledwithout choosing myself as crippled. This means that I choose the way I constitute my disability (as'unbearable', 'humiliating, 'to be hidden', 'to be revealed to all').
choice condemned free
I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, all the time, even when I think I have no choice to make.
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I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
confuse dreamers truth
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.