“Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.”
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Famous Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
“So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.”
Source: The Emotions: Outline of a Theory
“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.”
Source: Nausea
Source: The Problem of Method
“Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.”
Source: Colonialism and Neocolonialism
“Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.”
Source: Notebooks for an Ethics
“This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.”
Source: Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings
Source: Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings
“What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.”
Source: Sartre on Cuba
“When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.”
“The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.”
“There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.”
“The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.”
“I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.”
“I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.”