We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes From Jean-Paul Sartre I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer! Jean-Paul Sartre workmenbooklooks Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. Jean-Paul Sartre assassinsrevolutionaryenough Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist. Jean-Paul Sartre existentialismwonderway Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it. Jean-Paul Sartre circlesignorancehands Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. Jean-Paul Sartre agonypainhurt Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea. Jean-Paul Sartre sickgardencities The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two. Jean-Paul Sartre dreamtworeality Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas. Jean-Paul Sartre photographgivingideas Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself. Jean-Paul Sartre remedyexcuse I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences. Jean-Paul Sartre know-howusewanted Is there really nothing, nothing left of me? Jean-Paul Sartre left Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings. Jean-Paul Sartre undertakingsseriesmen Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist. Jean-Paul Sartre viewsattitudephilosophy I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest. Jean-Paul Sartre popular-literatureaimliterature Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that is all. For me, style - which does not exclude simplicity, quite the opposite - is above all a way of saying three or four things in one. There is the simple sentence, with its immediate meaning, and then at the same time, below this immediate meaning, other meanings are organized. If one is not capable of giving language this plurality of meaning, then it is not worth the trouble to write. Jean-Paul Sartre simplewritingthinking How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another? Jean-Paul Sartre alienationablepast L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free. Jean-Paul Sartre libremen As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished. Jean-Paul Sartre flamesheartmean So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it. Jean-Paul Sartre practicelyingpeople Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. Jean-Paul Sartre naturerootsprofound
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