Sartre, Jean-Paul

"Every human being is responsible for everything."

"We are as free as we think we are."

"Art is about expressing the human condition."

"Sadness is a form of protest."

"The responsibility for existence must rest in the individual himself."

"To deny ourselves an object of love is to deny the very ground of our being."

"Knowledge comes through action."

"Man creates meaning through his choices and actions."

"We are born without meaning and must create it ourselves."

"The past is fixed, but the future is always open."

"To understand oneself is to understand all humanity."

"A person is nothing else but the series of their actions."

"Politics and art are intertwined in human existence."

"To create is to destroy what was before."

"The essence of love is sacrifice."

"War is the ultimate expression of human alienation."

"Freedom demands constant vigilance and choice."

"Bad faith is the lie we tell ourselves about our freedom."

"Existence is prior to all meaning-making."

"To be human is to be incomplete, always becoming."

"Nature is indifferent to human meaning."

"The imagination is the key to understanding consciousness."

"To claim one has no choice is itself a choice."

"Shame reveals our being to ourselves."

"A writer must be fully engaged with his time."

"The essence of morality is the recognition of others' freedom."

"Death is the horizon that gives life meaning."

"To be free is to be burdened with responsibility."

"Human relationships are based on perpetual conflict."

"We must create values in a world without predetermined values."