Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Reality, Men

• All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Responsibility, Views, Doubt

• Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Understanding, Doubt, World

  "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 141, 1952.

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