More Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
