Jean-Paul Sartre Philosophy Quotations

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

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.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

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.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.