Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
1908 – 1986
French existentialist philosopher and author of "The Second Sex".
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
“It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do — or don't do.”
“I'm never afraid. But in my case it's nothing to be proud of.”
“There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.”
“What has value in their eyes is never what is done for them; it's what they do for themselves.”
“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
“It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given.”
“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.”
“The present enshrines the past—and in the past all history has been made by men.”
“I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
“What should a society be, so that in his last years a man might still be a man?”
“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life.”
“Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this.”
