841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!