Simone de Beauvoir Quote

At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice doesn't pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder from which we suffer.


Part I : Ambiguity and Freedom - The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947)


At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But...

At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But...

At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But...

At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But...