JeanPaul Sartre Famous Quotes



"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Hell is other people.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

"One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it."

"In love, one and one are one."

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

"To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe."

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.


JeanPaul Sartre Quotations






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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Mark Twain

"What is a minority The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."
John B Gough

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
Charles Caleb Colton

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila

But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wilde

We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Voltaire

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
Johann von Goethe