The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes...
JEAN PAUL No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
JEAN PAUL Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dr...
JEAN PAUL The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition ...
JEAN PAUL Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
JEAN PAUL Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
JEAN PAUL Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
JEAN PAUL Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
JEAN PAUL No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
JEAN PAUL The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. ...
JEAN PAUL Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
JEAN PAUL Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
JEAN PAUL You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
JEAN PAUL Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed...
JEAN PAUL A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...
JEAN PAUL The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
JEAN PAUL Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
JEAN PAUL We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot...
JEAN PAUL Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
JEAN PAUL Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everyt...
JEAN PAUL Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
JEAN PAUL The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
JEAN PAUL Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason...
JEAN PAUL Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
JEAN PAUL Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
JEAN PAUL Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
JEAN PAUL For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
JEAN PAUL Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it...
JEAN PAUL Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
JEAN PAUL Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
JEAN PAUL Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the stor...
JEAN PAUL Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, bu...
JEAN PAUL The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the d...
JEAN PAUL Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
JEAN PAUL As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly con...
JEAN PAUL Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the fir...
JEAN PAUL Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beaut...
JEAN PAUL All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Hell is other people.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Три часът. В три винаги е твърде късно или твърде рано з...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, bu...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO Man is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly con...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everyt...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the d...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The existentialist
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the fir...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Words are loaded pistols.
JEAN-PAUL SARTE Hell is—other people!
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying bore...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time expl...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their fr...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We are our choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER We must act out passion before we can feel it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
JEAN-PAUL KAUFFMANN Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy i...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beaut...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Weaklings must lie.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through.
JEAN-PAUL VADNAIS Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or i...
JEAN PAUL GETTY I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I hate victims who respect their executioners.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. [Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter un...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always loo...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugel...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER A sky full of silent suns.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jema...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Versch...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Pa...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not judge the people we love
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste H...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Acting is happy agony.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women do...
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it mu...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Commitment is an act, not a word.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp,...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not judge the people we love.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The fi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I hope to be an example for all. I hope.
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
JEAN-PAUL MARAT The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves sav...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the m...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multi...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE