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Existentialist Inspirational Quotes (357)

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One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.
Martin Buber
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.
Martin Buber
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Feeling one has love occurs.
Martin Buber
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I know only one Church: it is the society of men.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.
Martin Buber
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All actual life is encounter.
Martin Buber
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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
Martin Buber
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In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear that hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, YOU must stop.
Martin Buber
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