Home / Quotes / Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

“One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.”

Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

Author

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

You May Also Like

“Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.”

Humans Ends Reality Certain Values Choices Possibility Taste Ultimate Fundamentals Determine Compare Abandon Existential Inclination Psychoanalysis Ontology

Book:Existentialism and Human Emotions

Source: Existentialism and Human Emotions

“I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.”

World Disease Hunger Terror Personal Knowledge

Author:Madeleine Albright

“A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.”

Has Beens Tasks Remains

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.”

Ifs World Hands Law Support Democracy Built Revenge

Author:Madeleine Albright

“The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.”

Should Doe War Agree Iraq Administration Troops American Troops

Author:Madeleine Albright

“We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks.”

Way Different Approach Folks Strokes Strategic Different Approach Different Strokes

Author:Madeleine Albright

“If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.”

Ifs Should Firsts Would Be Earth Peace Psychiatrist Prince Of Peace

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The silent bear no witness against themselves.”

Bears Silent Witness

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.”

Spiritual Dying Agony Acts Of Love Stools

Book:After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

“An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!”

Should Real Family Ancient Owners Prophecy Castles Lordship

Book:The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. With a Memoir of the Author

Source: The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. With a Memoir of the Author