Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

I am, therefore I'll think.

Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."

I dream, therefore I exist.

At times I think and at times I am.

I think, therefore I am.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in thoughts, which are nothing but soap bubbles - or perhaps soap bubbles have more substance to them than your thoughts.

Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am," now raises him to say ... "I think, therefore I am not," (unless he takes thought into consideration only in that humble region where it is confused with action).

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

I think and that is all that I am.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

I drink therefore I am.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

I have no inner monologue.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.