As far as men go, it is not what they ar... by Jean-Paul Sartre | We Heart Quotes

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

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Other quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Life

Life begins on the other side of despair.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Men

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

God Man

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Life

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

God Men

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Destruction

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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