A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom. Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes From Jean-Paul Sartre The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. Jean-Paul Sartre difficult summer inspirational If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic. Jean-Paul Sartre authenticity sake ifs I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. Jean-Paul Sartre my-smile pupils heaven In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations. Jean-Paul Sartre dream men reality I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh! Jean-Paul Sartre ugh want thinking 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 Jean-Paul Sartre somewhere-else dream men We do not judge the people we love. Jean-Paul Sartre judging love people I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me. Jean-Paul Sartre foolish made order Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophical choices men It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it. Jean-Paul Sartre generosity life thinking Hell is other people at breakfast. Jean-Paul Sartre food people breakfast I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted. Jean-Paul Sartre nausea existentialism want Commitment is an act, not a word. Jean-Paul Sartre inspirational commitment interesting I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. Jean-Paul Sartre voice names thinking Because we can imagine, we are free. Jean-Paul Sartre imagine your judgement judges you and defines you Jean-Paul Sartre define-you judgement judging To choose not to choose is still to act. Jean-Paul Sartre stills Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. Jean-Paul Sartre light heart men Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophical powerful thinking In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well. Jean-Paul Sartre wells goal want
