"It is always more valuable to report the truth."
Read quote
8 likes
Quote collection
Jean-Paul Sartre quotes (page 11 of 24)
464 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life."
Read quote
8 likes
"Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist."
Read quote
8 likes
"Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts."
Read quote
8 likes
"The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up."
Read quote
8 likes
"In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal."
Read quote
8 likes
"Introspection is always retrospection"
Read quote
7 likes
"I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul."
Read quote
7 likes
"Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population."
Read quote
7 likes
"Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas."
Read quote
7 likes
"You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen."
Read quote
7 likes
"Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death."
Read quote
7 likes
"Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind."
Read quote
7 likes
"The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic."
Read quote
7 likes
"One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it."
Read quote
7 likes
"As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished."
Read quote
7 likes
"I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences."
Read quote
7 likes
"To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head"
Read quote
7 likes
"Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is."
Read quote
7 likes
"The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural."
Read quote
7 likes