Jean-Paul Sartre

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

We will freedom for freedom__ sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

In love, one and one are one.

It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!

It__ the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don__ say a word, they don__ hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself.

Ama barda_ımın dibinde biram ılıksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlalıksam; en içten ve en katı_ıksız acım, ayıbalı_ı gibi, hem bir yı_ın et hem gepgeni_ bir deriyle ve insanın içine dokunan ıslak, ama kötülük dolu gözlerle sürüklenip hantalla_ıyorsa bu benim kabahatim mi?

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes_ argument __ 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.