Ambiguity Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their…

— Hannah Arendt

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Many times man looks and doesn't see, other times he hears and doesn't understand, and this is serious. Now, when this intellectual obscurity reaches…

— Frederico Rochaferreira

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

— James Anthony Froude

“Masks. - There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely masks. The man who associates…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all…

— Honore de Balzac

Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true…

— Anonymous

“Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful.…

— Anonymous

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

— Raoul Vaneigem

“...In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a relatively short period; so that…

— Primo Levi

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

— Werner Herzog