Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Order, Criticism, Language

• I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Spring, Cutting, Use

• Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that is all. For me, style - which does not exclude simplicity, quite the opposite - is above all a way of saying three or four things in one. There is the simple sentence, with its immediate meaning, and then at the same time, below this immediate meaning, other meanings are organized. If one is not capable of giving language this plurality of meaning, then it is not worth the trouble to write.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Writing, Simple, Thinking

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1978). “Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays”

• The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the most radical and intransigent manner. This is what Alain Badiou has just done in Almagestes, where he puts language on trial with an intention
  of cleansing, of catharsis.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Done, Trials, Way

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