Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

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

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

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.

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

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.

I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

We are unable to recognize the laws of necessity if we believe we are free

The more, therefore, we consider man to be free, the less we can say, that he can neglect to use reason

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

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Man is condemned to be free.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.