841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

And then, tired out by all the shouting, I always simply went to bed. Today I’m doing it to feel the pleasure you don’t yet know, of turning abruptly from friendship to love, from strength to tenderness. Tonight I love you in a way that you have not known in me: I am neither worn down by travels nor wrapped up in the desire for your presence. I am mastering my love for you and turning it inwards as a constituent element of myself.

el infierno son los otros.

You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.

Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger.

Revolutionary man must be a contingent being, unjustifiable but free, entirely immersed in the society that oppresses him, but capable of transcending this society by his effort to change it. Idealism mystifies him in that it binds him by rights and values that are already given; it conceals from him his power to devise roads of his own. But materialism also mystifies him, by depriving him of his freedom. The revolutionary philosophy must be a philosophy of transcendence.

Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...