Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

One creates oneself.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I am, therefore I'll think.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. It’s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.