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

“At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.”

“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.”

“In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.”

“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.”

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

“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”

“The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false beliefs, and faulty judgments, which are the causes of so much hardship and handicap. To heal the body one turns to the practitioner of the art of healing the body, but to heal the soul there is no doctor to turn to, and each of us is left to become that doctor unto himself. Yet, this need not stop us from exhorting others to imitate us in the godly art, in the forlorn hope that they might transform themselves into better citizens for Athens and better companions for us.”

“TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,”

“The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.”

“Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.”