Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism
Sayings by Jean-Paul Sartre
The only true freedom is freedom from choice.
Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing other than the meaning you choose.
The moment you realize that you are not a victim, but a creator, is the moment you seize your life.
I am alone, I am with no one; I am nothing.
Human reality is a being such that in its being its being is in question in so far as this being implies a being other than itself.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are.
The best way to get to know yourself is to risk yourself in the company of others.
If you are engaged, you are free.
The word 'love' has by now been so debased that it can be used to describe the most sordid of human relations.
Every human being is a creator, a destroyer, and a preserver.
The Other is the indispensable mediator between myself and myself.
One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet existence is a gift.
The essential thing is to want nothing, to say nothing, to be nothing.
The word 'existentialism,' which is now so much abused, means nothing else but 'man is free.'
I detest the guts of the French bourgeoisie.
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
The human being is an abyss.
What is not chosen is not being.
Freedom is the sum of our choices.
The meaning of life is not a given; it is created by us.