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Truth Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
- Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
- Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse…
- Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it;…
- Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in…
- …but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth:…
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