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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes about Philosophy

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

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

Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophy, War, Philosophical

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

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

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophy, Doe, Helping

A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Art, Philosophy, Men
Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “The diary of Antoine Roquentin”

Man is condemned to be free

Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom, Philosophy, Philosophical
1946 L'Existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism and Humanism,1948) (translated by Philip Mairet).

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

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Birthday, Philosophy, Class

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophy, Thinking, Complaining
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.37, Open Road Media

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Art, Philosophy, Responsibility

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Attitude, Philosophy, Views
Jean Paul Sartre (1963). “The Problem of Method”

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