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Date of Birth
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21-June-1905
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Place of Birth
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Paris
(ÃŽle-de-France, France, Seine)
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Nationality
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France
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Also know as
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Jean Paul Sartre, Sartre, Jean-Paul, Sartre, Dr. Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
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Profession
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Writer, Philosopher, Novelist, Physician, Playwright, Author, Literary critic, Biographer, Screenwriter
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Quotes
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- Hell is other people.
- We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
- Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm
- Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
- If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
- Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
- To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
- I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
- Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- We must act out passion before we can feel it.
- Words are loaded pistols.
- The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
- Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
- If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
- Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
- Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
- When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
- I hate victims who respect their executioners.
- 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.
- Man is a useless passion.
- Life begins on the other side of despair.
- It is only in our decisions that we are important.
- Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
- All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
- Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
- Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.
His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines. Sartre has also been noted for his open relationship with the prominent feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir.
He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution".
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