Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Man is condemned to be free.

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

Values are rooted in a basic optimism about life and a faith in free will.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

I'm a card-carrying existentialist.

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.