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Introspection is always retrospection

Introspection is always retrospection

Jean-Paul Sartre
Human Nature, Introspection

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Hate, Men, Hatred

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Failure, Thinking, Battle
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Possibility, Advantage, Accustomed
Jean-Paul Sartre (1978). “Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays”

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Genius, Way
Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Life, Philosophy, Philosophical
Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.133, New Directions Publishing

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Water, Depth, Slipping

The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Suicide, Men, Fascination

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophical, Meaning Of Life

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Sake, Authenticity, Ifs
Jean-Paul Sartre (1992). “Notebooks for an Ethics”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Inspirational, Philosophical, Passion

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Adventure, Add, Canvas

It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?

Jean-Paul Sartre
Body, Disgusting
Jean-Paul Sartre (1969). “The Wall (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Years, Differences, Hours

God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have anything but his cadaver. Perhaps he slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. Perhaps he was only a dream...God is dead.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Dream, Men, Somewhere Else

I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Eternity, My Time
Jean-Paul Sartre (1969). “The Wall (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Dream, Art, Truth
Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "crire"

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Selfish, Men, Apes
"The Strange Fiction of Devon Pitlor: Volume III". Book by Devon Pitlor, p. 241, May 27, 2014.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Running, Men, Running Away
"The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 11, sc. 2, 1951.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Heart, Men, Light
Jean-Paul Sartre (1962). “Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies”

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Son, House, Citizens
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thinking, Tranquility, Life Death
"No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

Hell is other people at breakfast.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Food, People, Breakfast
1945 Huis clos.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophy, Philosophical, Want

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