Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them. . .there is nothing
Hell is other people.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Words are
loaded pistols. -Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher
1905-1980
French
philosopher, novelist
and playwright
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. -Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher
(1905-1980)
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. -Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It
means that, first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the
scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself.
Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fullfills
himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else
than his life.
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Tomorrow, after my death, certain people may decide to establish fascism, and the others may be cowardly or miserable enough to let them get away with it. At that moment, fascism will be the truth of man, and so much the worse for us. In reality, things will be as much as man has decided they are.
( Existentialism is a Humanism, pp. 53-54.)
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or
selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture
ravenous.
When the rich make war it's the poor that die. Jean Paul Sartre
Once you hear the
details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
-Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)