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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Graduation, Freedom, Responsibility
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.22, Open Road Media

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Art, Philosophy, History

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism, Certain, Anguish
"Being and Nothingness". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943.

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Love, Children, Animal

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Life, Games, Would Be

I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Moving, Light, Air
"Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thinking, Moments, My Thoughts
Jean-Paul Sartre (1998). “Nausea: The Wall and Other Stories : Two Volumes in One”, Fine Communications

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Teacher, Teaching, Philosophical
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Solitude, Absence
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

What is not possible is not to choose.

Jean-Paul Sartre
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.174, Open Road Media

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Fighting, Evil, Tempted

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Hero, Coward, Heroic

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Nausea, Doe
"The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, 1951.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Book, Philosophical, I Have Learned
"Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Race, Endeavor, Humans

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Kissing, Eggs, Evil
Jean-Paul Sartre (1966). “Words”

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Funny, Humor, Waiting
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Born, Dies, Meaningless

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Consciousness, Conscious, Nothingness
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.225, Open Road Media

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

Jean-Paul Sartre
Atheist, Philosophical, Atheism
"The Words". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Soul, Desire, Existentialism
"The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 10, sc. 2, 1951.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thinking, Diaries, Danger
Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Memories, Past, Trying
"La Nausée (Nausea)". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1949.

I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so definitely that they come from me, and that they are simply a way of unifying my own knowledge. Not a glimmer comes from Rollebon's side. Slow, lazy, sulky, the facts adapt themselves to the rigour of the order I wish to give them; but it remains outside of them. I have the feeling of doing a work of pure imagination.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Believe, Order, Giving
Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “The diary of Antoine Roquentin”

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Lying, Practice, People

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