Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself. Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes From Jean-Paul Sartre I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life. Jean-Paul Sartre solitude suicide ideas In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. Jean-Paul Sartre team football soccer There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse. Jean-Paul Sartre leader two people Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophical judging evil I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I Jean-Paul Sartre ought stills knows Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity. Jean-Paul Sartre hours differences years To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while. Jean-Paul Sartre risk life-is inspirational Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. Jean-Paul Sartre pairs reflection ideas Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them? Jean-Paul Sartre maintaining prove ideas What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward. Jean-Paul Sartre essence men mean He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon. Jean-Paul Sartre solitude silence sky He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's always feeling me, but if they put the glass in his hands he wouldn't touch it, he wouldn't think, "that's hers," you ought to love all of somebody, the esophagus, the liver, the intestines. Maybe we don't love them because we aren't used to them, but if we saw them the way we saw our hands and arms maybe we'd love them; the starfish must love each other better than we do. Jean-Paul Sartre glasses hands thinking The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person. Jean-Paul Sartre challenges ideas thinking Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophical technology science I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity. Jean-Paul Sartre my-time eternity Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophical philosophy life I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. Jean-Paul Sartre library important book I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. Jean-Paul Sartre cutting use spring I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. Jean-Paul Sartre tranquility life-death thinking I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar. Jean-Paul Sartre sleep tree water
