Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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• Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Giving, Up To You, Life Has No Meaning

  "Existentialism and Human Emotions".

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• Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

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  Silence, Consequence

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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

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  Peaceful, What Is Life, Interruptions

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• Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

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  Inspirational, Attitude, Freedom

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• We are our choices.

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  Choices, Our Choices

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• the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

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  Knowing, Being Lied, Lied

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• Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Rocks, Guy, Sailing

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

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  Beautiful, May, Chaos

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• Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Purpose, Action

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• He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
  When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.

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  Commitment, Perspective, Worry

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• We make our own hell out of the people around us.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  People, Hell

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• I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I
  am still choosing.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Stills, Ought, Knows

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.32, Open Road Media

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Freedom, Responsibility

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.167, Open Road Media

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• In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

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  Struggle, Men, Essence

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Rybalka, Michel Contat, Richard C. McCleary (1985). “The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

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• Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

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  Simple, Sometimes, Truth Is

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• Death is a continuation of my life without me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Death, Existentialism, Continuation

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

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  Inspirational, Learning, Growth

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• Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

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  Powerful, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

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  Our Actions, Way, Responsible

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• I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

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  Book, Important, Library

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1966). “Words”

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• I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

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  Suicide, Ideas, Solitude

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• Commitment is an act, not a word.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Commitment, Interesting

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• Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

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  Eye, Ruins, Faces

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• your judgement judges you and defines you

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  Judging, Judgement, Define You

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