Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes on Virtue
Jean-Paul Sartre was a 20th-century French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and political activist, the leading public exponent of existentialism in the post-war period. This page collects quotes attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
p. 41 -
Attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre:
“We are our choices.”
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Attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre:
“Commitment is an act, not a word.”
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“I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.”
The Devil and the Good Lord(1951) | Act 3, sc. 5 -
“He chooses the most feared, most hated man in order to worship him as a god, feeling sure that he is alone in perceiving the god's secret virtues.”
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr(1952) | p. 165