Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

We are our choices.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

[Donald] Trump is still Trump, and that means he says things that politicians just don't say.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.