Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.The French Left: A History & Overview, 1982
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Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, and novelist, known as a leading figure in 20th-century existentialism. His works, such as "Being and Nothingness" and "No Exit," explored themes of existentialism, free will, and the nature of human existence.
1905–1980·lived 74 years
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.The French Left: A History & Overview, 1982
Life has no meaning a priori. Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.What Is Literature?, 1948
Commitment is an act, not a word.Existentialism is a Humanism, 1946
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.Essays in Aesthetics, p. 12, 2012
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.Existentialism and Human Emotions, 1957
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.Being and Nothingness, Part Four, Chapter 1 (Hazel E. Barnes translation, Philosophical Library, 1956)
I hate victims who respect their executioners.The Condemned of Altona, 1960
Hell is other people.No Exit, 1944
When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die.The Devil and the Good Lord, 1951
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
That’s all 13 quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre.