79 Quotes by Jean Paul Sartre

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Now I am weary and I can no longer tell good from Evil, and I need someone to show me the way.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.

As soon as there will exist for everyone a margin of real freedom beyond the production of life, Marxism will have lived out its span; a philosophy of freedom will take its place. But we have no means, no intellectual instrument, no concrete experience which allow us to conceive of this freedom or of this philosophy.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.