Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• We are our choices.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Choices, Our Choices

• Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Men, Choices

  Jean Paul Sartre (1947). “Existentialism”

• Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Choices, Matter

• Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Choices, Path

  "The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 1, 1943.

• One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Choices, Stupidity, Enough

• 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.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reality, Choices, Fundamentals

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1985). “Existentialism and Human Emotions”, Citadel Press

• I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Children, Choices, Determined

  "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1952.

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