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

“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”

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

“I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.”

“All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”

“One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.”

“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.”

“He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.”

“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.”

“How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?”

“Progress without humility is just destruction in disguise.”

“If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself”