Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 11:56AM
Drew Wolfe

Simone de Beauvoir

All oppression creates a state of war.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

It was said that I refused to grant any value to the maternal instinct and to love. This was not so.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.

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 your conscience.

 

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