Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.”

“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”

“One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.”

“Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?”

“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”

“Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.”

“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.”

“Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.”

“I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.”

“To eat is to appropriate by destruction.”