Jean-Paul Sartre

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

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

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.