Jean-Paul Sartre: Citations en anglais

Jean-Paul Sartre était philosophe, dramaturge, romancier, nouvelliste et essayiste français. Citations en anglais.
Jean-Paul Sartre: 441 citations59 J'aime

“A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

Refusing the Nobel Prize, New York Times (22 October 1964)

“Each human reality is at the same time a direct project to metamorphose its own For-itself into an In-itself-For-itself, a project of the appropriation of the world as a totality of being-in-itself, in the form of a fundamental quality. Every human reality is a passion in that it projects losing itself so as to found being and by the same stroke to constitute the In-itself which escapes contingency by being its own foundation, the Ens causa sui, which religions call God. Thus the passion of man is the reverse of that of Christ, for man loses himself as man in order that God may be born. But the idea of God is contradictory and we lose ourselves in vain. Man is a useless passion.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre L'Être et le Néant

Part 4, Chapter 2, III
Being and Nothingness (1943)

“The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

(280).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart?”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Act 3, sc. 6
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Orestes, Act 3
The Flies (1943)

“I am condemned to be free.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre L'Être et le Néant

Je suis condamné à être libre.
Part 4, chapter 1
Being and Nothingness (1943)

“Aegistheus, the kings have another secret…. Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men — and to them alone — to let him flee or to destroy him.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Jupiter, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre L'Être et le Néant

Conclusion, II
Being and Nothingness (1943)

“To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957)

“I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Orestes, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

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Jean Paul Sartre The Condemned of Altona

Loser Wins http://books.google.com/books?id=NwBMAAAAMAAJ&q="I+hate+victims+who+respect+their+executioners" (Les Séquestrés d'Altona: A Play in Five Acts) (1960)

“This inner revolution is realistic because it maintains itself deliberately within the framework of existing institutions; the oppressed reckon with the real situation.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
Original: (66).

“…inversion…is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

91
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mains sales

Act 5, sc. 2
Dirty Hands (1948)

“What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Situations

On Alberto Giacometti’s work, Situations, in Braziller (1965)

“The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mains sales

Act 6, sc. 2
Dirty Hands (1948)

“He is dead, and my hatred has died with him.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Electra, before the dead Aegistheus, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“He chooses the most feared, most hated man in order to worship him as a god, feeling sure that he is alone in perceiving the god’s secret virtues.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

165
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mains sales

Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)