#sartre

Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#philosophy #sartre #existentialism

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#influenced #much #sartre

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#nausea #death

Sartre, in his memoirs, confessed to much the same experience. "Like Plato, I passed from knowledge to its subject. I found more reality in the idea than in the thing because it was given to me first and because it was given for a thing. It was in books that I encountered the universe: digested, classified, labelled, mediated, still formidable. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#experience

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#freedom #responsibility #sartre #freedom

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#sartre #nature

Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#lucifer-and-the-lord #sartre #thirst #respect

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#himself #man #philosophers #question #raise

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#friend #i #kafka #led #me

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#i #liked #sartre #views #writing