Jean-Paul Sartre

• "Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.“
• "If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.“
• "There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.“
• "The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.“
• "One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.“
• "Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.“
• "Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.“
• "All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.“
• "Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.“
• "The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.“
• "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.“
• "I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.“
• "God is absence. God is the solitude of man.“
• "That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.“
• "What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.“
• "I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.“
• "Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.“
• "Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.“
• "Everything has been figured out, except how to live.“
• "We do not judge the people we love.“
• "As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.“
• "I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.“
• "It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.“
• "Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.“
• "Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.“
• "Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.“
• "I hate victims who respect their executioners.“
• "I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.“
• "Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.“
• "Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.“
• "Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.“
• "Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.“
• "I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.“
• "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.“
• "Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.“
• "If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.“
• "The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.“

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