As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Quote by Jean-paul Sartre
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Jean-paul Sartre Quotes
- One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
- Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
- There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
- Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
- The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
- All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
- God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
- I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
- If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
- The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
Best Quotes
- I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.
- It's only a fool that will lit a candle at midday.
- I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
- I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.
- If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
- I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.
- Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
- Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
- Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
- My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.