I leave you the 80 best Phrases of Jean-Paul Sartre, One of the key figures of existentialism and French philosophy of the twentieth century.
Born on June 21, 1905 in Paris, France, Jean-Paul Sartre was a pioneering intellectual and defender of existentialism who defended leftist causes in France and in other countries.
He wrote several books, including the very influential Being and nothingness , And was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964, although he rejected it, claiming that accepting it would be like putting itself to the service of that institution.
He had a relationship with the noted intellectual Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringing, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyle and thought.
His many works And still have a great influence on sociology, critical thinking and literary studies.
After a life full of important events: his imprisonment during World War II, his work as professor in the Lycée Condorcet (Paris), his meeting with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, his open relationship with Simone de Beauvoir, etc.; His health deteriorated to such an extent that he lost Seen almost completely in 1973. Seven years later, Sartre would suffer from pulmonary edema that would cost him his life.
The following sentences summarize some of the most important existentialist dilemmas of this acclaimed philosopher. You may also be interested in These quotes from philosophers or These are famous writers .
1-Man is condemned to be free, since once in the world, he is responsible for all his actions.
2-Death is the continuation of my life without me.
3-Today we know how everything is done, except living.
4-Life is nothing more than a useless passion.
5-The worst thing that they lie to you is to know that you did not even deserve the truth.
6-Words are loaded pistols.
7-Non-existence lies hidden in the heart of every being, like a worm.
8-In love, one and one is equal to one.
9-If you feel lonely when you are alone, you are badly accompanied.
10-You are you, your life, and nothing else.
11-It seems that everything I know about my life I have learned from books.
12-Throughout my life I have realized that all our problems stem from our inability to use clear and concise language.
13-My love, you are not"a thing in my life", not even the most important, because my life no longer belongs to me, because you are my life.
14-It's up to you to make sense of your life.
15-Man is what he chooses to be for himself.
16. You can sew your lips or cut your tongue, but can you stop existing? Can you stop thinking?
17-It is more dangerous to be a good journalist than a bad killer.
18-To know what is worth our life, it is worth to risk it from time to time.
19-The more empty the hourglass of our life, the more clearly we should see through it.
20-Commitment is an act, not a word.
21-Everything that exists is born without reason, prolongs its life in spite of the weakness and dies by chance.
"It may be inevitable." We may actually have to choose between being nothing or pretending what we are.
23-There is nothing more important than a book. For me, the library is a temple, and reading a religion.
24-Do you think I tell the days? Only one day remains, one that always repeats itself. It is given to us at dawn and is taken away at dusk.
25-Life ceases to have meaning at the moment when the illusion that it is eternal is lost.
26-Belief is summed up in confusing things with his name.
27-Once liberty has enlightened man's heart, the gods have no power over him.
28-One can only hurt himself through others. We can never harm ourselves directly.
29-It is the duty of every individual to do what he wants to do, think what he wants to think, respond to anyone except himself, and question any idea And to every individual.
30-In football everything is complicated by the presence of the rival team.
31-Existence is prior to the essence, and rules over it.
"I want to die decently."
33-When you understand the details of victory, it is difficult to distinguish it from defeat.
34-We are only important in our decisions.
35-Your judgment judges and defines you.
"I've never tolerated the idea of anyone expecting anything from me.
37-Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.
38-The goal of language is to communicate, to impart the results that one has obtained. As I speak, I reveal a situation. I reveal it to myself and to
Others to change it.
39-Like every dreamer, I confused deception with truth.
40-I hate victims who respect their executioners.
41-I will smile, and my smile will penetrate your pupils, and God knows what he will become.
"We are no more than our own decisions.
"I have been able to prove that the human heart is empty and tasteless everywhere except in books.
44-When the rich embark on a war, it is the poor that die.
45. Man is alone, abandoned on earth, in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other purpose than that which is proposed.
46 -Why is it so important that we all agree?
47-Beginning to love someone is a great feat. You need energy, generosity and being blind. To start you must cross an abyss that does not
You would cross if you stopped to think about it.
48-When someone has expected something from me, I have always wanted to do just the opposite.
49-The three o'clock is always too late or too early for what you want to do.
50-There may be more beautiful times, but this time is ours.
51-Life begins on the other side of despair.
"Man can not do anything of value until he understands that he can not count on anyone except himself.
"I'd like to go, go to a place where I'm at home, where it fits." But my home is nowhere.
54-I am my thought, that's why I can not stop. I exist because I think and I can not stop thinking.
55-Life has no meaning a priori. The meaning of your life depends on you, and the value of your life is nothing but the meaning you choose.
56-Getting sidetracked? How immature! I feel you in my bones. Your silence deafens me.
57-Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but perdition in their looks.
58-There is no point in thinking of complaining, since nothing external has decided what we feel, what we live, what we are.
"I guess it's laziness that makes the world the same day after day.
60. Man tends to tell his life rather than live it. He sees everything through what counts, and pretends to live his life as if it were a story. But we have to choose between living our life or telling it.
61-There is no reality except in action.
62. Only the one who is not advancing has time to bother.
63. I can not deny that God does not exist. But I can not forget that my whole existence screams for a god.
"I exist, that's all. And I find it extremely unpleasant.
65-We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are. That's the truth.
66-Existence is an imperfection.
67-Not being bound to my own words makes my thoughts blurred most of the time. That is why I forget them almost righ now.
68-People living in society have learned to see themselves in mirrors as they are seen by their friends. I do not have friends, will it be for That I look so naked?
69-Man is condemned to be free because he did not create himself, but was placed in this world.
70-Nothing happens while we live. The stage changes, people come and go. That is all.
There is no beginning of anything. The days are piling up one behind another without order or concert. An endless and monotonous addition of days.
"As far as the man is concerned, it is not what interests me, but what he is capable of becoming.
73. At the moment of death, our life is always complete.
74. Man is not so much the sum of what he has, but rather the sum of what he does not have; Of what you might have.
75-The consciousness that says"I exist"is not the consciousness that thinks.
76-We do not judge the people we love.
77. Generosity is nothing more than the desire to possess. Everything that is abandoned, everything that is given, is much more enjoyable when giving it. To give Possessively possess what is given.
There are two types of poor: those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The former are the true poor, while the Seconds are rich who have not been lucky.
79-No finite term makes sense without an infinite point of reference.
80-Politics is a science. With it you can show that you are right and that others are wrong.