Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

At times I think and at times I am.

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

I am, therefore I'll think.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.

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.

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 still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

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

To live is to think.

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

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

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

I tell, therefore you are.