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Ontologist Inspirational Quotes (278)

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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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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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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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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 must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Perception is naturally surpassed toward action better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an always future hollow, for we are always future to ourselves.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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