Actions Quotes Logo
Quote Image

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did ...

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

Actions Quotes Logo
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his ...

Show More
Picture of Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de BeauvoirThe Ethics of Ambiguity

More Simone de Beauvoir quotes

"

I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put ...

"

We have to respect freedom only when it is intended for freedom, not when it strays, flees itself, and resigns itself. A freedom which is interested o...

"

Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the creator; to foster such an aim, one must first un...

"

Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always...

"

(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…