Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf 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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
-
-
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
What is there to fear in such a regular world?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Life is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE