The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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About Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, political activist, and writer, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and was a proponent of Libertarian Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official h…
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Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through p…
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
We do not judge the people we love.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through p…
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.