Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 January 1908
CountryFrance
philosophy existentialism ambiguity
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
past action regard
We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
men doe addresses
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 the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.
men
A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.
men world natural
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
existential eternal-life eternal
The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
female faces enough
If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?
want blades-of-grass blades
I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
names errors abuse
To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.
contentment complacency steps
It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
imagination revolution doe
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
war men zealous
It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.
doe existential slave
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.
time
Live with no time-out.