Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected. Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes From Jean-Paul Sartre it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else. Jean-Paul Sartre odd hate men So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre farce fire people Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm. Jean-Paul Sartre worms heart lying I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight. Jean-Paul Sartre hunger dying children I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books. Jean-Paul Sartre empty heart book I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life. Jean-Paul Sartre priests enough play Life is a useless passion. Jean-Paul Sartre passion useless life-is I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. Jean-Paul Sartre trying memories past Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical. Jean-Paul Sartre wizards men world When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show how a man can pass from literature held sacred to action which nevertheless remains that of an intellectual. Jean-Paul Sartre party writing men One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. Jean-Paul Sartre new-ideas doe ideas When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings. Jean-Paul Sartre too-much animal children I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury. Jean-Paul Sartre luxury evil men To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. Jean-Paul Sartre atheist spiritual believe I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, Jean-Paul Sartre echoes two years It is always more valuable to report the truth. Jean-Paul Sartre valuable war peace She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound. Jean-Paul Sartre singing sorrow suffering That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world? Jean-Paul Sartre literature doe world Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence. Jean-Paul Sartre existence judgement may Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter. Jean-Paul Sartre wish class two