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Jean-Paul Sartre (Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre)

(1905 – 1980) A French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Acting is happy agony.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.