Quotes About Philosophy

This then is the age of reason.

Anyhow, isn't it better to think we've got here by mistake?

The distance between the being and the conscience is the nothing

No doctrine is more optimistic [than existentialism], since it declares that man's destiny lies within himself.

I shall never sleep again. But then—how shall I endure my own company?

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

I haven't any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that's all. And that particular trouble is so vague, so metaphysical, that I am ashamed of it.

I am free,' he said suddenly. And his joy changed, on the spot, to a crushing sense of anguish.

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

Je ne suis rien que le regard qui te voit, que cette pensée incolore qui te pense.

Lucien thought with bitter pleasure that his parents found him looking fine. "I don't exist." He closed his eyes and let himself drift: existence is an illusion because I know I don t exist, all I have to do is plug my ears and not think about anything and I'll become nothingness.

I am never any one of my attitudes, any one of my actions

Jean-Paul Sartre

BaÅŸlang?ç olmad??? gibi, son da yoktur. Bir kad?n, bir dost, bir kent bir kerede terk edilemez. Hepsi birbirine benzer zaten.

A right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.

freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

one cannot hate a man more than one can love him." The

man is a useless passion.

To believe is to know that one believes, and to know that one believes is no longer to believe.

I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.

Now I knew: things are entirely what they appear to be—and behind them . . . there is nothing. This

We have to deal with human reality as a being which is what it is not and which is not what it is.

You are what you are not and are not what you are.

Faire souffrir c'est posséder et créer tout autant que détruire.