The quotations of

Jean-Paul Sartre

French existentialist philosopher

1905–1980

8 quotes, most often on God and Freedom.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951), Act 4, sc. 5
- Virtue
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
“On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,” Libération (22 June 1953)
- Politics
Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), p. 58
- Life & Death
What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises?
“Orphée Noir (Black Orpheus)” preface, Anthologie de la Nouvelle Poésie Nègre et Malgache (1948)
- Freedom
- Race
I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.
Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), p. 52
- Liberty
Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself.
Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), pp. 33–34
- Atheism
- God
Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.
The Flies (1943), Act 3
- Freedom
- God
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.
“Orphée Noir (Black Orpheus)”
- History
- Poetry

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