Ethics Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual…

— Simone de Beauvoir

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Thus we can regard the phenomenon of reproduction as founded in the very nature of being. But we must stop there. The perpetuation of…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree. Maybe Robert…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“We built machines to answer every question, but forgot to ask what it means to be human.”

— Lawrence Nault

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

— Simone de Beauvoir

There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people,…

— Lynne Tillman

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.”

— Abhijit Naskar