Jean-Paul Sartre

"The more one owns, the more one is owned; I exist in inverse proportion to my possessions."

"Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility."

"Each person is an absolute to himself and we recognize him thus."

"We are reduced to hoping blindly."

"Death is our permanent possibility of being unable to be."

"The fundamental source of all human anxiety is the responsibility entailed by freedom."

"Art and freedom are inseparable."

"A man is in general better satisfied with a choice that he has deliberately made than with one that has been imposed upon him."

"Teaching is like trying to hold back an avalanche with a teaspoon."

"The past cannot really hurt you, only your thoughts about the past."

"Beauty is not something that improves with age."

"Imagination is not an empirical talent, but rather the power of the imagination reveals the fundamental finitude of human reality."

"The slave is the master of his master."

"Every human being is condemned to bear the whole weight of the world on his shoulders."

"We are always in situations from which we must make choices."

"To choose is to affirm the value of what we choose."

"Love is a leap into the infinite."

"The anguish which I experience as I stand before the abyss is the anguish of freedom."

"Knowledge is power and the power to silence dissent is control."

"What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists."

"The best way to avoid bad faith is to be fully conscious of one's freedom."

"Man cannot escape being free; in every choice he makes, he is affirming what he believes is valuable."

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making darkness conscious."

"Radical freedom means that humans must accept radical responsibility."

"I exist; this simple statement is the beginning of all philosophy."

"The only true love is the love of what is difficult."

"History is not what happened, but what is remembered and recorded."

"A writer is not someone who writes to make money, but someone who must write."

"Art involves lying and the beauty of a lie is that it reveals truth."

"Political engagement is not a luxury but a necessity for the intellectual."