Jean-Paul Sartre

"If we cannot live only for the pleasures of the intellect, we certainly cannot live only for those of the body"

"Sadness is not generally a constituent of love, but of hatred"

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

"The best method for discovering what ought to be is to study what is"

"What is literature but a way of escaping from our condition"

"Dreaming is a form of nostalgia"

"Consciousness is a being which is not what it is and which is what it is not"

"The authentic attitude is hope"

"One cannot be anything without society"

"To understand the social world is to understand human relations"

"Politics is the art of the possible, but the possible is sometimes invisible"

"The only thing that matters is what we do"

"Without freedom, there is no existence"

"Despair is the condition of being truly free"

"The basis of freedom is responsibility"

"To know oneself is above all to know what one can do"

"Work is not a curse; it is only a curse when it is imposed against our will"

"Every human being is responsible for everything"

"We must take ourselves seriously, though not literally"

"The value of a man resides in what he gives, not in what he is capable of receiving"

"The writer's work is to describe the world faithfully as he sees it"

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

"Life teaches us to love people not because they are perfect, but because they are real"

"One cannot demand loyalty of which one is not capable"

"Being and nothingness are the fundamental structures of human reality"

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled"

"To be human is to feel ashamed of what we have become"

"Love is a fundamental desire to merge with the beloved"

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once"

"A man without passion is not a man"