Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."
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"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."
Jean-Paul Sartre The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
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"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."
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"One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity."
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"People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing."
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"“Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.(There is no reality except in action.)”"
Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism is a Humanism
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"“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”"
Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness
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"“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”"
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"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."
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"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."
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"It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous."
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"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
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"Commitment is an act, not a word."
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"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."
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"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."
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"The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best."
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"If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically."
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"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."
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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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"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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"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."
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