Jean-Paul Sartre

Commitment is an act, not a word.

We were never so free as under the German occupation.

The world is absurd.

You are—your life, and nothing else.

Every word has a consequence. Every silence, too.

Man is a being who is not what he is, and is what he is not.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

What is life but a series of inspired follies?

I am a man of the word. I believe in the power of words.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet existence is there, it's your measure.

The greatest joy of all is to be free.

It is only in our decisions that we are free.

The first principle of existentialism is that man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

I regret nothing. I have done what I have done.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

The world is full of things that have no explanation.

Man is a useless passion, but he is a passion for nothing.

If you want to be a philosopher, write a book.

The greatest effort is not to make oneself understood, but to understand.

Man is a bridge, not a goal.