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

“Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957)

“You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Mother to her young son, Act 1
The Flies (1943)

“The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mains sales

Hugo, Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)

“Thus, Beauty is neither an appearance nor a being, but a relationship: the transformation of being into appearance”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

408
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Act 2, sc. 4
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

141
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

King Aegistheus, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“Her face seems ravaged by both lightning and hail. But on yours there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Act 1
The Flies (1943)

“I can be twenty women, one hundred, if that’s what you want, all women. Ride with me behind you, I weigh nothing, your horse will not feel me. I want to be your whorehouse!”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Act 3, sc. 4
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“Now I am weary and I can no longer tell good from Evil, and I need someone to show me the way.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Orestes to Electra, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away…. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre L'Être et le Néant

Part 2
Being and Nothingness (1943)

“I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mains sales

Hugo to Slick and Georges, Act 3, sc. 2
Dirty Hands (1948)

“To eat is to appropriate by destruction.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre L'Être et le Néant

Part 3: Being-For-Others
Being and Nothingness (1943)

“Suppose that I wish to deserve the title of “robber of remorse” and that I place in myself all [the townspeople’s] repentence?”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Orestes to Electra, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“Admit it, it is your youth that you regret, more even than your crime; it is my youth you hate, even more than my innocence.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Electra to her mother Clytemnestra, Act 1
The Flies (1943)

“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.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre L'Être et le Néant

Being and Nothingness (1943)

“I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Electra to her brother Orestes, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Orestes to Electra, Act 2
The Flies (1943)