Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.

Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.