I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is v… - Jean-Paul Sartre

" "
I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic. He had an enduring personal relationship with fellow philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Pen Names: Jacques Guillemin

Alternative Names: Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre • Jean Paul Sartre • J.P. Sartre • J.-P. Sartre • Sartre

All quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Jean-Paul Sartre:

Fernando Pessoa Franz Kafka John Fowles Henry Miller Margaret Atwood

Additional quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Jupiter: I gave you the liberty to serve me.
Orestes: That is possible, but it has turned against you and there is nothing either one of us can do about it.

You believe that you believe, but you don’t believe.

all of us abandon ourselves to existence, because we were among
ourselves, only among ourselves, it has taken us unawares, in the disorder, the day to day drift: I am
ashamed for myself and for what exists in front of it.

I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized. - Jean-Paul Sartre

About Jean-Paul Sartre

Also Known As

Enhance Your Quote Experience

Additional quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Go Premium