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Jean-Paul Sartre

1905-1980. Full name Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, French philosopher, writer and critic.

1. "When the rich wage war it's the poor who die."

source: "The Devil and the Good Lord"

categories: Peace and War -:- Richness and Money

2. "When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."

source: "The Devil and the Good Lord"

categories: Peace and War -:- Richness and Money

3. "To eat is to appropriate by destruction."

source: "Being and Nothingness"

categories: Various

4. "The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."

source: "The Words"

categories: Richness and Money

5. "The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question."

source: "Anti-Semite and Jew"

categories: Good and Evil

6. "Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."

categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Science and Technology

7. "One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."

categories: Human -:- Life and Death

8. "One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."

categories: Various -:- Work and Laziness

9. "Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil."

categories: Good and Evil

10. "My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist by what I think [...] and I can't prevent myself from thinking."

source: "Nausea"

categories: Human -:- Various

11. "Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."

source: "The Words"

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Truth and Falsity

12. "Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom."

source: "Imagination: A Psychological Critique"

categories: Reality and Imagination

13. "I hate victims who respect their executioners."

source: "The Condemned of Altona"

categories: Justice

14. "Hell is other people."

categories: Good and Evil

15. "Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

categories: Authority, Government -:- Good and Evil

16. "Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."

source: "Black Orpheus"

categories: Art and Culture


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