Sartre, Jean-Paul

"Change is inevitable; what matters is whether we shape change or are shaped by it."

"Nature offers lessons only to those willing to see themselves as part of nature, not apart from it."

"Science without ethics is merely technique; philosophy without science is mere abstraction."

"Do not seek happiness as a destination; rather, pursue meaningful engagement with others and the world."

"The deepest friendship arises between those who have chosen to support each other's freedom."

"Family inheritance includes not just genes but patterns of thinking we must consciously examine and transcend."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the willingness to engage conflict through dialogue rather than violence."

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"We are our choices."

"Existence precedes essence."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence itself is an act of rebellion."

"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."

"I am my own beginning, my own middle and my own end."

"Hell is other people."

"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."

"Everything is absurd, but people act as if it has meaning."

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

"Writing is a bridge between isolation and communion."

"The more one loves, the more one suffers. The heart was not made for joy."

"Bad faith is the denial of our radical freedom."

"We are always dying a little."

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

"I feel nauseated when I see in front of me the pure, meaningless, senseless contingency of existence."

"The essential is not to change one's life but to know how to live."

"Despair is the natural condition of the lucid man."

"In love, one and one do not make two."

"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself."

"The artist must commit to his work as a man commits to his life."

"If you cannot change your circumstances, you can always change your attitude toward them."

"Every individual is an infinite universe."