It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

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