Source: The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre
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Famous Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
“I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.”
Source: No exit, and three other plays
Source: Notebooks for an Ethics
“Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.”
“L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.”
“L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.”
“It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.”
Source: Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays
“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
Source: Nausea
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”
Source: Existentialism
“The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“God is absence. God is the solitude of man.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics