Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What the existentialist says is that the coward makes himself cowardly, that the hero makes himself heroic.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.

Jean-Paul Sartre