Jean-Paul Sartre on Truth

"Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it."

"As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way."

"It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth."

"You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen."

"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist."

"But when they have realized that it rejects them forever, they themselves assume the ostracism of which they are victims so as not to leave the initiative to their oppressors"

"With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all."

"Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being"

"Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it."