Quotes About Sartre

Sartre intends to convey the view that man first exists without purpose or definition, finds himself in the world and only then, as a reaction to experience, defines the meaning of his life. It

A brain the size of a planet," said Aristide, "and you're as fucked by Sartre as the rest of us.

According to Sartre, we are historically prone to thinking of ourselves as objects due to the Judeo-Christian credo that God stamped us with our essence from the get-go; it is His prerogative. So to think that we are able to stamp ourselves is a sacrilege. But the main reason we keep ducking the responsibility of self-creation is that it is super scary. If I am the master of my fate and my fate does not turn out so well, I have no one to blame but myself.

According to Sartre, we are historically prone to thinking of ourselves as objects due to the Judeo-Christian credo that God stamped us with our essence from the beginning; it is His prerogative. So to think that we are able to stamp ourselves is a sacrilege.

Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought.

hace excavar una pequeña fosa para Gustave. Sorprendentemente, el niño sobrevive. Resulta ser un crío tardo, que se pasa tranquilamente horas y horas sentado con el dedo en la boca y una expresión «casi idiota» en el rostro. Para Sartre, es «el idiota de la familia». 1836 Comienza

La casa del escritor en Croisset fue derribada poco después de su muerte y reemplazada por una fábrica para la extracción de alcohol del trigo malogrado. No sería tampoco muy difícil librarse de su estatua: si un alcalde amante de las estatuas puede levantarla, otro –quizás un acérrimo defensor de la línea del partido, alguien que ha leído por encima lo que Sartre dice de Flaubert– podría retirarla celosamente.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

Sartre turns love into a 'battle between two hypnotists in a closed room'.

As the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre observed, several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

Sartre said Hell is other people. I'd say Hell is other people's utopia.

A fact is first an answer to a question. If Sartre had consulted psychologists before judging them in the light of his own genius, he would have learned that they do not wait on the accident but begin by setting themselves problems.

Cette fois-ci j'ai choisi un axe, sans m'interdire pour autant d'emprunter quelques chemins de traverse, et cet axe je l'ai défini dès les premières lignes comme étant ma relation au langage (il se peut que ce livre ne soit qu'une version personnelle des Mots de Sartre...).

Un jour de printemps 1944, Sartre me fit part de son intention de faire (je dus entendre : « monter ») une revue, une fois la guerre finie : il me demanda d'y collaborer. « Avec joie, lui dis-je. Il y a un emploi qui m'attire particulièrement : j'aimerais être boy, vous savez un de ceux qui esquissent des pas de danse autour de la vedette.

L'expérience même n'était pas nécessaire. Sartre, j'en aurais juré, ne s'était jamais risqué sur des skis nautiques et pourtant il trouvait le moyen de décrire – et sur des pages – la jouissance du skieur. Ah ! comme l'intelligence pouvait être gaie !

Sartre, je le jugeai plus tard sinon tout à fait gagné par la folie des mots, du moins, dans la lutte exténuante qu'il a toujours menée contre elle, enclin, corydrane aidant, à y céder.

Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm

Dreyfus (1991) claims that Heidegger radicalized "the insights already contained in the writings of such pragmatists as Nietzsche, Peirce, James, and Dewey" (p. 6). See also Haugeland 1982, where he writes: "I make Heidegger out to be less like Husserl and/or Sartre than is usual, and more like Dewey (and to a lesser extent) Sellars and the later Wittgenstein" (p. 15).

As an intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sort of man, wasn't it simple logic to expect that he'd be limited to intense, nicotine-stained Jean-Paul Sartre sorts of Women?

Sartre claimed that hell is other people," I said. "He never saw no TV game show," Hawk said.

I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems dated and has lost much of its value.