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Osho on Jean-Paul Sartre

36 discourses in which Osho speaks about Jean-Paul Sartre, most mentions first. Each line is his own sentence from that talk.

  1. Geeta Darshan 2 Vol. 1 2 #2 · 16 mentions
    “What Sartre says is exactly right for Arjuna.”
  2. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 7 #8: The rock bottom of no and yes · 12 mentions · 8 January 1976
    “Sartre is standing where Buddha was also standing before he became enlightened, but Buddha was open towards the future.”
  3. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 4 #6: The existentialist cul-de-sac · 9 mentions · 26 April 1975
    “Buddha also reached to a point where Sartre is: the existentialist despair, the anguish, the feeling that all is futile, that life is meaningless.”
  4. From Unconciousness to Consciousness #27: Religion -- The Last Luxury · 8 mentions · 25 November 1984
    “Jean-Paul Sartre says, "The other is hell."”
  5. The Guest #13: The guest is inside you · 8 mentions · 8 May 1979
    “Charvakas in ancient India, Epicurus in Greece, and then Nietzsche, Marx, Diderot, Freud, Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, they all have been repeating the same argument again and again in different words.”
  6. The Heart Sutra #7: Full Emptiness · 8 mentions · 17 October 1977
    “Another existentialist philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, says: "Man is condemned to be free."”
  7. Mahaveer Vani #4 · 8 mentions · 21 August 1971
    “Sartre said a very valuable aphorism.”
  8. The Sun Rises in the Evening #5: When we Attain to Reality · 7 mentions · 15 June 1978
    “MAN IS A USELESS PASSION says Jean-Paul Sartre.”
  9. Kathopanishad #16 · 7 mentions · 13 October 1973
    “There are Western thinkers like Sartre who say: life is suffering.”
  10. Nahin Sanjh Nahin Bhor #7 · 7 mentions · 17 September 1977
    “In the West there are many thinkers — Sartre, Marcel, Jaspers — who say there is no meaning.”
  11. Bhakti Sutra #4 · 6 mentions · 14 January 1976
    “In the West there is a great thinker, Jean-Paul Sartre.”
  12. Krishna Smriti #12 · 6 mentions · 1 October 1970
    “Sartre and other existentialists say: existence precedes essence.”
  13. Books I Have Loved #10 · 5 mentions
    “The first book, Jean-Paul Sartre's BEING AND NOTHINGNESS.”
  14. Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy #12: Discipline, Devotion and Krishna · 5 mentions · 1 October 1970
    “Sartre and other existentialists believe that existence precedes essence, but it is a very odd state, ment.”
  15. Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen #7: Better Mad Than Stupid · 5 mentions · 1 May 1980
    “It is because of this that Jean-Paul Sartre used to say: "The other is hell."”
  16. Geeta Darshan 2 Vol. 1 2 #3 · 5 mentions
    “So if someone asks Tillich: Russell has no faith in God, yet he does not taste meaninglessness, emptiness, as Sartre does, or Camus, or others—why does Russell not feel it?”
  17. Come Follow To You, Vol 4 #2: Between Adam and Jesus · 4 mentions · 22 December 1975
    “A journalist just a few days ago asked Jean-Paul Sartre,'What is the most important thing in your life today?'”
  18. From Death to Deathlessness #2: Abandon hope all those who enter here · 4 mentions · 3 August 1985
    “I also use the word "existentialist" for myself, but the difference between Jean-Paul Sartre, Jaspers, Marcel, and me is vast, unbridgeable.”
  19. The Invitation #13: Three tickets for titsburg · 4 mentions · 27 August 1987
    “Jean-Paul Sartre has said -- and when a man like Sartre says something it is significant; his statement has become immensely famous: "The other is hell."”
  20. The Last Testament, Vol 5 #21 · 4 mentions · 14 January 1986
    “A Jean-Paul Sartre experiences boredom; a Jaspers experiences boredom; a Marcel experiences boredom.”
  21. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 #4: The un-minding of being · 4 mentions · 4 March 1975
    “Says Sartre, "The other is hell."”
  22. Come, Come, Yet Again Come #8: Silence and Song Meet · 3 mentions · 3 November 1980
    “What Jean-Paul Sartre said in this century, the monks all over the world -- Christian, Hindu, Jaina, Buddhist, Mohammedan -- have known all along; it is one of the most ancient experiences.”
  23. Come Follow To You, Vol 3 #10: Love is fragile like a flower. Hatred is powerful like a sword · 3 mentions · 20 December 1975
    “One of the greatest thinkers of the West, Jean-Paul Sartre, has a certain theory.”
  24. From Personality to Individuality #2: To define is to confine -- existence has no boundaries · 3 mentions · 31 December 1984
    “Then followed the four other names: Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel, and the last but not the least important -- in fact the most important -- Jean-Paul Sartre.”
  25. Nirvana: The Last Nightmare #1: Mastered By Zen · 3 mentions · 11 February 1976
    “Ask Jean-Paul Sartre.”
  26. Sufis: The People of the Path, Vol 2 #10: Out of the Mud and the Mire · 3 mentions · 5 September 1977
    “Jean Paul Sartre has said: 'Man is a useless passion.'”
  27. Take It Easy, Vol 1 #3: All Lies and Nonsense! · 3 mentions · 13 April 1978
    “Socrates started a certain idea in the West which has culminated in its logical perfection in Sartre.”
  28. The Golden Future #38: Don't dig valleys -- climb mountains · 3 mentions · 30 May 1987
    “I have written letters to Jaspers, to Jean-Paul Sartre and they didn't even have the courage to answer.”
  29. The Invitation #27: Still time to change the trains · 3 mentions · 4 September 1987
    “They refer to people like Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jaspers as very enlightened geniuses.”
  30. The Last Testament, Vol 1 #13: America Is A Hypocrite · 3 mentions · 30 July 1985
    “The pope cannot have a communion with Jean-Paul Sartre, it is impossible.”
  31. The Tongue-Tip Taste of Tao #4 · 3 mentions · 4 October 1978
    “Then Sartre is right, that man is a useless passion.”
  32. Vedanta: Seven Steps to Samadhi #14: The Motionless Flame of a Lamp · 3 mentions · 18 January 1974
    “Sartre says that the other is hell....”
  33. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #10: The Alpha is the Omega · 3 mentions · 10 January 1975
    “Sartre, one of the great thinkers of this age, says that suicide is the only freedom -- freedom from God.”
  34. Kaivalya Upanishad #14 · 3 mentions · 1 April 1972
    “Sartre may say life is meaningless—yet he will live.”
  35. Piya Kokhojan Main Chali #5 · 3 mentions · 5 June 1980
    “In this, Jean‑Paul Sartre acted far more honestly.”
  36. Tao Upanishad #120 · 3 mentions · 30 March 1975
    “Hence the West’s greatest thinkers—Sartre, Jaspers, Heidegger, Marcel—are filled with melancholy.”