Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes (10+)

Enjoy the best Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes. Quotations by Jean-Paul Sartre (French Philosopher and Existentialist)
Jan 01, 1905 - Jan 01, 1980

Life has no meaning a priori... it is up to you to give it a meaning.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Words are loaded pistols.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I am my own beginning.

We are our choices.

Hell is other people.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

I am condemned to be free.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it's up to you to give it a meaning.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was a pivotal figure in 20th-century French philosophy, best known for his development of Existentialism and his belief that 'existence precedes essence,' meaning humans are free to define their own meaning.