If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Existentialism embraces the uncertainty and complexity of human existence.
Simone De Beauvoir emphasizes that existentialism, as a philosophical movement, acknowledges the inherent ambiguity of life and the human condition. Rather than providing clear-cut answers or definitive truths, it encourages individuals to confront the uncertainties and make their own choices in a world that lacks absolute meaning or clarity.
Themes
ExistentialismAmbiguityPhilosophyUncertaintyFreedom
In practice
Example use cases
In a philosophy class discussing the nature of existence.
More from Simone De Beauvoir
All quotes βTwo separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)
Simone De BeauvoirRead
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present β¦ Eating, sleeping, cleaning β the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
Similar quotes
Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
Yochai BenklerRead
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert EinsteinRead
To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.
Aldo LeopoldRead
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticized with reason for being windy, but what matters windiness for the vigorous organisms of peasants and laborers?
Denis DiderotRead
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill MaherRead
You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.
William J. ClintonRead