Jean-Paul Sartre

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I tell you the truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

It's the well-behaved children ... that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don't say a word, they don't hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on they make society pay dearly.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world, you want to blow it up.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

A good hanging now and then, that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Words are loaded pistols.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

It is only in our decisions that we are important.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no reality except in action
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The world can get by nicely without literature. But without human beings it can get by better yet.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
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Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

In love, one and one are one.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre