A lost battle is a battle one thinks one... by Jean-Paul Sartre | We Heart Quotes

Author Freedom philosopher playwright Nobel Prize

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Other quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Men

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

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Soul

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Science God Men

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Sons Blood Right Will

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Fact Nothing

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Adventure

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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