841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's always feeling me, but if they put the glass in his hands he wouldn't touch it, he wouldn't think, "that's hers," you ought to love all of somebody, the esophagus, the liver, the intestines. Maybe we don't love them because we aren't used to them, but if we saw them the way we saw our hands and arms maybe we'd love them; the starfish must love each other better than we do.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

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.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

It is up to you to give life a meaning.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.