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Inspiring quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

hridoy khan · June 21, 2025 · 2 min read
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The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

  • If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
  • Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
  • Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
  • Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
  • Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
  • When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
  • There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
  • Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
  • Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
  • Commitment is an act, not a word.

Jean-Paul Sartre, born on June 21, 1905, in Paris, France, was a renowned philosopher, writer, and political activist. He is best known as a leading figure in existentialism, a philosophy emphasizing individual freedom, responsibility, and the meaninglessness of life without self-defined purpose.

Sartre’s major philosophical work, Being and Nothingness (1943), explores human consciousness and the concept of “bad faith”—denying one’s own freedom.

Beyond philosophy, Sartre was a celebrated novelist and playwright, with works like Nausea and No Exit reflecting his existentialist themes. He was also a strong advocate for Marxism and anti-colonialism, using his platform to address social and political issues. In 1964, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he famously declined, asserting that a writer should not become an institution.

Sartre’s influence extended across philosophy, literature, and politics, shaping 20th-century thought. He died in 1980, leaving a lasting intellectual legacy.

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