Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Life, Live, Everything

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Passion, Before, Act

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Alone, Lonely, Bad

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything, Free, Once

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Time, Rock, Guy

Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre

We do not judge the people we love.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Commitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Word, Act, Commitment

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Women, Waiting, Fame

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Alone, True, Together

Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Words, Loaded, Pistols

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

Three, Late, Early

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, Whole, Sure

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Age, History, Poetry

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Intelligence, Trust, Keep

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

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Men, Become, Far

I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Respect, Hate, Victims

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
Jean-Paul Sartre

God, Men, Science

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Life, Nothing, Late

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Lost, Battle, Thinks

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fear, Longer, Gained

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Away, Left, Taken

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 21, 1905

Died: April 15, 1980

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