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Jean-Paul Sartre

Quote of Jean-Paul Sartre: Man will be what he will...


Biography - Jean-Paul Sartre:

French philosopher, playwright and novelist. Sartre is one of the leading figures of existentialism and a deeply engaged public intellectual of the 20th century.
Born: 1905 - Died: 1980
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

Man will be what he will have planned to be.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
L'homme sera d'abord ce qu'il aura projeté d'être.

German
Der Mensch wird zuerst das sein, was er zu sein entworfen haben wird.




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Tell yourself, first of all, what kind of man you want to be; and then go ahead with what you are doing.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

Become who you are!

The stars of your destiny are in your heart.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Man is, before all else, something which propels itself towards a future and is aware that it is doing so.




Quotes for: to be


Quotes

Quotes for "to be" or about being:


The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





To be, or not to be, that is the question.





Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.





I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.





I think, therefore I am.





Language is the house of the truth of Being.











Quotes for: project


Quotes

Quotes for: project


Want of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans.





Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing less than his life.





Men have great pretensions and little schemes.





Young people are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and more fit for new projects than for settled business.





It is desire that creates the desirable, it is the project that poses the end.







Quotes for: Man


Quotes

Quotes about man, all human beings:


Man is the future of man.





No man is weak by choice.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.











Quotes

Jean-Paul Sartre also said...


What matters is not what is being done of us, but what we do ourselves with what has been done of us.





when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men.





Each man must invent his own path.





Existence precedes essence.





I was allowed free run of the library and I stormed human wisdom.





The Other is on principle inapprehensible; he flees me when I seek him and possesses me when I flee him.












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