Philosophy Sartre Quotes

#1. He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that there is no end to human suffering, only endurance.

Diane Setterfield

#2. Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'

Drew Gilpin Faust

#3. [E]very man ought to say to himself, Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. Sartre turns love into a 'battle between two hypnotists in a closed room'.

Iris Murdoch

#5. Now he knew there was so much more to her story and damn if he didn't want to read the whole book.

Cassandra Samuels

#6. Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#7. In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#8. Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#9. And personally, I watched him [Khizr Khan]. I wish him the best of luck.

Donald Trump

#10. There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#12. Before beginning this treatise, he wanted the advice of The Baboon, his philosophy prof. "Excuse me, sir," he said at the end of a class, "could anyone claim that we don't exist?" The Baboon said no. "Goghito," he said, "ergo zum. You exist because you doubt your existence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#13. Those who believe that the world of being is governed by luck or chance and that it depends upon material causes are far removed from the divine and from the notion of the One.

Plotinus

#14. God's Word is not a book of human ideas ... it is given to us by [God] to teach us how to live.

Billy Graham

#15. A search for justification and the impossibility of justification are recurrent motifs in the philosophy of Sartre. His philosophy is one of the incarnations of problematism and of the ambiguity of contemporary thought (for Man does seem, to the contemporary mind, to be ambiguous).

Jean-Paul Sartre

#16. Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

Wim Wenders

#17. I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#18. When you sing, always tell the truth.

Billie Holiday

#19. Man is free rather than man is freedom.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#20. I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.

Sarah Dessen

#21. The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

Rodney Dangerfield

#22. The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.

Maralee McKee

#23. could we not conceive of a philosophy of existence linked, not solely to experiences of separation, forlornness, and profound melancholy, but also to feelings of hope and confidence?

Jean-Paul Sartre

#24. A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?

Jack Valenti

#25. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#26. You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#27. In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'

Claude Simon

#28. There is no reality exception in action.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#29. Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.

Margaret Atwood