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.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.