Sartre, Jean-Paul

"Man looks at the world and finds it irrational; yet he insists on acting rationally."

"The word is not for naming things, but for creating them."

"Anguish is the price of freedom."

"We are left alone without excuse."

"Fiction is reality without illusion."

"Time is the being of consciousness."

"The past is frozen and cannot be changed; the future is not yet; only the present is active."

"One cannot be anything unless one makes oneself that thing."

"The role of the writer is to say that war is bad and that people suffer."

"To be is to do."

"Consciousness continually surpasses itself."

"The cruelest way to wound someone is to make them feel inadequate."

"Every enterprise is exhausting."

"The facticity of the situation is that which cannot be changed."

"A man is not what he says but what he does."

"Political commitment is the only form of authenticity."

"The act of love is not about possession but liberation."

"Intellectuals are the conscience of society."

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

"Social forms are the crystallized solutions to human problems."

"The meaning of an action is not determined by its consequences alone."

"Generosity is not about giving but about freeing someone from scarcity."

"Reading is a dialogue between reader and writer across time."

"Ambiguity is the fundamental character of human existence."

"The future is nothing; the present is what matters."

"Prejudice is the assumption that we understand others without effort."

"Art is freedom made visible."

"Death gives urgency to life."

"One cannot love without risking oneself."

"Conflict is the primary fact of human relations."