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

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

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul Sartre

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than you life.
Jean-Paul Sartre

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Jean-Paul Sartre

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

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

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre