Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Let us suppose that a man believes in eternal life on Christ's word. In that case he believes without any fuss about being profound and searching and philosophical and racking his brains.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

You just mentioned Bob Marley —  I can remember when I was in college, listening — and not agreeing with his whole philosophy necessarily, but raising my awareness of how people outside of our country were thinking about the struggles for jobs and dignity, and freedom.

If Socrates died, then either he died when he was living, or when he was dead. But he couldn't have died when he was living, for he was not dead when he was living. But he couldn't have died when he was dead, for when he was dead he had already died. Therefore, Socrates never died.

When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not an agnostic- I'm an acrostic, the whole thing puzzles me.

I think I am, therefore I am. I think.

Mono no aware.

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

A Socrates gone mad.

George Santayana

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE – DESIRE = GOD.

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders.