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Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Violence, Nothing To Lose, Loses
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Generosity, Giving, Want

To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thinking, Bones, Break

Man is what he wills himself to be.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.22, Open Road Media

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Boredom, Too Much, Enough

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Powerful, Philosophical, Thinking

To choose not to choose is still to act.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Stills

We do not judge the people we love.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Love, People, Judging
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Life, Thinking, Generosity

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophical, Men, Choices
Jean Paul Sartre (1947). “Existentialism”

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Life, Existentialism, Moments
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

Because we can imagine, we are free.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Imagine

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Inspirational, Commitment, Interesting

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophy, War, Philosophical

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Soccer, Football, Team
Jean-Paul Sartre (1976). “Theorie des ensembles pratiques”, Verso Books

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism, Existence
"Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Inspirational, Risk, Life Is
Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Death, Existentialism, Continuation
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

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

Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophical, Taken, Sunset
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Suicide, Ideas, Solitude
Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

Jean-Paul Sartre
Reality, Action, Existentialism

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Book, Important, Library
Jean-Paul Sartre (1966). “Words”

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thinking, Ideas, Challenges

Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Our Actions, Way, Responsible

If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

Jean-Paul Sartre
World, Want, Bed
"The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 6, 1951.

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