Sartre, Jean-Paul

"Hunger is the measure of man"

"Love is a state of being more than a mere act or action"

"When one loves, one enters the world of another"

"Life is absurd, but we must live as if it were not"

"Suicide is not escape; it is defeat"

"We have never been freer than under the German occupation"

"My freedom is my very being"

"Consciousness is a revelation being"

"The fundamental idea of phenomenology is that consciousness is always consciousness of something"

"To be free is to transcend facticity by a free project"

"The essence of human reality is freedom"

"I am my freedom and nothing else"

"Choice is the very definition of human being"

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"

"The only way to be true to my own nature is to be radically free"

"What we call reason is a collection of choices"

"Reality is what resists our desires"

"Commitment is the price of freedom"

"Art and politics are essentially human; they must account for freedom"

"The artist creates a world and invites man to create himself within it"

"Theater is the most difficult form of artistic expression"

"Words are things too"

"The beauty of style can only come from a kind of necessity"

"Every act is thus an attempt to transcend freedom"

"Our freedom is our burden"

"We are radically free and radically responsible"

"Knowledge without conscience is the ruin of the soul"

"To succeed in life, you must consider failure as the tuition you pay"

"Every invention is like a theft from nature"

"What is important is to be a free man"