Jean-Paul Sartre
lonely alone bad company
“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
count days one left given dawn taken dusk
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
man condemned free responsible
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
freedom do done to us
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
die feet live knees
“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
alone reasonable voice agree think
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
rich war poor die
“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
you are your life
“You are — your life, and nothing else.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
beautiful times ours
“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
fugure out except live
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
life meaning value choose
“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
smiling faces ruin eyes
“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
reality action
“Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.
(There is no reality except in action.)”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
know want responsible
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. ”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
word consequence silence
“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
duty do think challenge ideaperson
“The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
football complicated opposite team
“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
life useless passion
“Life is a useless passion.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
trouble language clear-cut
“I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
confuse thing name
“I confused things with their names: that is belief.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
life interruption peaceful nonexistence
"What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
we are choices
"We are our choices."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
commitment perspective worry action
"He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
choose act
"To choose not to choose is still to act."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
truth simple intellectuals
"Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
imagine free
"Because we can imagine, we are free."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
ideas pair contradict reflection
"Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
philosophy liberation reject
"Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
respect orders myself rules humiliate
"I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)