Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
A French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic.
(1905 - 1980)
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3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
[Time]
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.
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Absurd, irreducible; nothing-not even a profound and secret delirium of nature-could explain [a tree root].
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
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Acting is happy agony.
[Agony]
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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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And we feel that the hero has lived all the details of this night like annunciations, promises, or even that he lived only those that were promises, blind and deaf to all that did not herald adventure. We forget that the future was not yet there; the man was walking in the night without forethought, a night which offered him a choice of dull rich prizes, and he did not make his choice.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
[Life]
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Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
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Existence precedes and rules essence.
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