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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

«It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir (Writer) | About: God, Religion
«The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses»
«To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.»
«The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.»
«That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.»
«One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.»
«The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.»
«There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.»
«We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.»

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