Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• 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

• Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reality, Action, Existentialism

• What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reality, Men, Color

• Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Real, Men, Play

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre (Act 4, Scene 6), April 2, 1948.

• 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

• The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Reality, Two

• What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reality, Changed, I Have Changed

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