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Jean-paul Sartre Quotes


Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than you life.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.