One always has the choice, but that's not an excuse.

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. It declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

We shall devote ourselves to describing the moral aspect of this anxious man, for whom the world is filled with demands.

When we speak of 'abandonment' – a favorite word of Heidegger – we only mean to say that God does not exist, and that it is necessary to draw the consequences of his absence right to the end.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

A man can only try so hard to explain himself, but you won't understand unless you experience it yourself.

Man is solely responsible for his nature and his choices.

Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself.

If I am a worker, for instance, I may choose to remain one or to become a boss, but whatever I choose, I choose in accordance with my situation, not against it.

Existentialism is a Humanism