I don't need God in order to love my neighbor.
Jean-Paul Sartre · Quoted in Simone de Beauvoir, Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre (1981)
Jean-Paul Sartre: French philosopher and novelist, 1905 to 1980.
Jean-Paul Sartre · Quoted in Simone de Beauvoir, Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre (1981)
Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.” · Being and Nothingness (1943)
Jean-Paul Sartre · No Exit (1944), sc. v
Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946)
Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “La vie humaine commence de l'autre côtè du dèsespoir. Human life begins on the far side of despair.”
Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “Je suis condemnè á être libre. I am condemned to be free.”
Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “I found more reality in the idea than in the thing because it was given to me first and because it was given as a thing. It was in books that I encountered the universe: digested, classified, labeled, pondered, still formidable.” · The Words (1964)
Jean-Paul Sartre · The Transcendence of the Ego (1936), summarizing Husserl
Jean-Paul Sartre · What Is Literature? (1947)
Jean-Paul Sartre · Declaration refusing the Nobel Prize (October 22, 1964)
Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “Comme tous les songe-creux, je confondis le dèsenchantement avec la vèritè. Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”
Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.” · Saint Genet (1952)
Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “Quand les riches se font la guerre ce sont les pauvres qui meurent. When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
Jean-Paul Sartre · Roquentin in the novel that made Sartre's name; the sentence goes on that there is a moment at the start when you have to jump across a precipice.
Jean-Paul Sartre · Situations (1939), II
Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “L'existence prècéde et commande l'essence. Existence precedes and rules essence.”
Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946)
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