Sartre, Jean-Paul

"The ethics of Aristotle is not a secularization of the ethics of the Gospel"

"War is the continuation of politics by other means"

"No limits to my ambitions, but they must be grounded in reality"

"Knowledge is not understanding, it is merely information"

"The individual is nothing without society"

"Literature serves no purpose if it is not to change the writer as he writes it"

"A writer must refuse, therefore, to allow himself to be transformed into an institution"

"Ugly and sick feelings, such as hate, contempt, disgust and fear, which until now have been the only ones to move men to action, would be replaced by generous and healthy feelings"

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

"Not to choose is to choose"

"Imagination is dialectical"

"The first principle of good faith is that man is never excused"

"Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed"

"Time is not a real quality of things"

"Being is what it is"

"The essence of a tool is its function"

"Consciousness is always consciousness of something"

"Play is the attitude that one adopts toward objects when one considers them for themselves"

"Man is in anguish because he discovers that he is condemned to be free"

"I discover that I am the object of another's freedom"

"The more we possess, the more we fear to lose"

"The past is what you remember, imagine to remember, convince yourself that you remember"

"The future is the infinite field of freedom"

"Justice is never a given; it is always fought for"

"There is no such thing as a natural history of freedom"

"A man is what he wills himself to be"

"To be born is to be thrown into the world; to exist is to become aware of being thrown"

"The subjectivity of man is the subjectivity of freedom"

"We are not distinguished from animals by the having of reason"

"A thing can be free and still be in the world"