Man is the being whose project it is to be God. Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes From Jean-Paul Sartre A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude." Jean-Paul Sartre reigntragedymen With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed. Jean-Paul Sartre luckmaythinking My pessimism has never been flabby. Jean-Paul Sartre pessimism If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. Jean-Paul Sartre Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm Jean-Paul Sartre We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards. Jean-Paul Sartre If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. Jean-Paul Sartre longerdetaildefeatvictory
