Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre (1905 — 80) was a leading French existentialist philosopher, novelist, playwright, and critic. He is best known for his work on the nature of human and the structures of consciousness. He is also known for refusing the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964. Simone de Beauvoir was closely associated with him.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Man is condemned to be free.

- Existentialism Is a Humanism

• Once you hear the details of a victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

- Le Diable et le bon Dieu

• Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

- Ibid.

• When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die.

-ibid

Charles Percy Snow