Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

• When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophy, War, Philosophical

• It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophy, Thinking, Complaining

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.37, Open Road Media

• We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Want

• Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Birthday, Philosophy, Class

• Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Art, Truth

  Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "crire"

• Man is condemned to be free

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Freedom, Philosophy, Philosophical

  1946 L'Existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism and Humanism,1948) (translated by Philip Mairet).

• A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “The diary of Antoine Roquentin”

• Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Art, Philosophy, History

• Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Art, Philosophy, Responsibility

• Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.133, New Directions Publishing

• Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Attitude, Philosophy, Views

  Jean Paul Sartre (1963). “The Problem of Method”

• Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophy, Doe, Helping

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