Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing, Give, Through

Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Life, Despair, Side

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Life, Moment, Lose

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Good, Wanted, Souls

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing, Her, She

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fight, Die, Rich

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Number, Fascism, Defined

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Life, Learned, Books

It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Important, Decisions

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Powerful, Words

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Dreams, Truth, Dreamers

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Understand, After, Happens

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Politics, Science, Others

Acting is happy agony.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Happy, Acting, Agony

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Men, Selfish, Find

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Finance, Life, Poor

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Reason, Chance, Born

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Jean-Paul Sartre

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Thinking, Thought, Why

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Work, Best, Difficult

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Failure, Human, Actions

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Once, Says, Anguish

I confused things with their names: that is belief.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Confused, Belief, Names

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Victory, Defeat, Longer

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 21, 1905

Died: April 15, 1980

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