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Words are loaded pistols.

Words are loaded pistols.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thought Provoking, Pistols, Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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

Jean-Paul Sartre
Inspirational, Summer, Difficult
"Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 6, sc. 2, 1948.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Choices, Matter

Hell is for other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre
People, Hell

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

Jean-Paul Sartre
No Exit
Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Life, Spiritual, Witty
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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

Jean-Paul Sartre
Deep Thought, Victory, Details
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

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

Jean-Paul Sartre
Life, Exercise, Generosity
Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "Lire"

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

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

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

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

In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Goal, Want, Wells
Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.176, Open Road Media

Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem!

Jean-Paul Sartre
Problem, Deals, Ifs

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Opposites, Ideas, Expecting Something
Jean Anouilh, Ugo Betti, Jean-Paul Sartre (1958). “Three European plays: Ring round the moon [by] Jean Anouilh, The queen and the rebels [by] Ugo Betti, In camera [by] Jean-Paul Sartre”

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thinking, Ugh, Want
Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thinking, Names, Voice
Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

Nothingness haunts Being.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism, Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre (1968). “Essays in Existentialism”

I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea, Want, Existentialism

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Love, True Love, Funny Marriage
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr”, p.6, U of Minnesota Press

In love, one and one are one.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Love, Inspirational, Undone

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Order, Foolish, Made
"Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hugo to Slick and Georges, Act 3, sc. 2, 1948.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Military, Philosophical, Numbers
"On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg," Libération, June 22, 1953.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Responsibility, Destiny, Men

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Dream, Reality, Men

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Heaven, My Smile, Pupils
Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

Life is a useless passion.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Passion, Useless, Life Is

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