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
french-philosopher illusion life loose meaning moment
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
peaceful what-is-life interruptions
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
inspirational risk life-is
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
life world labor
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.
life eye hands
We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.
life blood shedding-blood
It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
passion useless life-is
Life is a useless passion.
life-is absurd
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
life hate order
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
life games would-be
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.
philosophical meaning-of-life
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
life thinking generosity
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
life exercise generosity
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
inspirational life philosophical
Life begins on the other side of despair.