Jean-Paul Sartre World Quotations

If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

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.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon toward himself to recover his inner being.