Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Vegetables, Soul, Carrots

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

• I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Soul, Needs

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

• God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have anything but his cadaver. Perhaps he
  slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. Perhaps he was only a dream...God is dead.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Men, Somewhere Else

• I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soul, Desire, Existentialism

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 10, sc. 2, 1951.

• Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Bored, Long, Soul

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

• Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mother, Moving, Thinking

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, 1943.

• Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Kings, Men, Soul

  "The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, 1943.

• It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Names, Soul

• Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Soul, Liberty

  "The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jupiter, Act 2, 1943.

• Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soul, Absence, Superb

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes, Act 1, 1943.

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