Ten thoughts of Jean-Paul Sartre on the meaning of Life

Jun 21. 2017
by Characters team

Sources:
nobelprize.org
On Jean-Paul Sartre from Pegasos Author's Calendar

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If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

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When rich people fight wars with another, poor people are the ones to die.

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Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

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The goal of art is to recover this world by giving it to be seen not as it is, but as if it had its source in human freedom.

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The bad novel aims to please by flattering, whereas the good one is an exigence and an act of faith. But above all, the unique point of view from which the author can present the world to those freedoms whose concurrence he wishes to bring about is that of a world to be impregnated always with more freedom.

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