“Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.”
More from Jean-Paul Sartre on Philosophy
“Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.”
“For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.”
“Man is fully responsible for his nature, choices and lifestyle.”
“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
“This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.”
“The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
“Nothingness haunts Being.”
“There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.”
“Hell is—other people!”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”