“I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.”
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, writer, and playwright, born on June 21, 1905, and died on April 15, 1980. He is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, renowned for his existentialist philosophy. Sartre's works spanned across philosophy, literature, and drama, and had a profound impact on later generations. more
“Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.”
“Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.”
“No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.”
“Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.”