Philosophy Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”

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

“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.”

“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.”

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

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

“Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and this is our situation, frustrated , but on the other part of world (West) ,they are enjoying in party and drinking liquor (white liquid) but their situation is that, successful, I do not know that the problem relates to the type of liquid or the way of drinking!!”

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.”

“Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.”

“Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”

“The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.”