As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes From Jean-Paul Sartre I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves. Jean-Paul Sartre lightairmoving If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner. Jean-Paul Sartre bedwantworld It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die. Jean-Paul Sartre meaninglessborndies Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. Jean-Paul Sartre realizingconsciousnessimagination The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it. Jean-Paul Sartre languagecriticismorder 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 existencemenbelieve He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being. Jean-Paul Sartre giving-upgamesyears My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire. Jean-Paul Sartre my-thoughtsmomentsthinking Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophicalmilitarynumbers Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition. Jean-Paul Sartre nauseareasonpeople Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out. Jean-Paul Sartre geniusmenway In love, one and one are one. Jean-Paul Sartre undoneinspirationallove I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite. Jean-Paul Sartre expecting-somethingoppositesideas Words are loaded pistols. Jean-Paul Sartre pistolsexistentialismthought-provoking We must act out passion before we can feel it. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophicalpassioninspirational We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews. Jean-Paul Sartre libertyresponsibilitymen Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself. Jean-Paul Sartre existentialismmenfirsts She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophicalatheismatheist As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophicalteachingteacher I do not think therefore I am a moustache Jean-Paul Sartre moustachethinking
