What Is Existentialism

What Is Existentialism - Simone De Beauvoir

The first error consists precisely in believing that existentialism can be concentrated in one or two immediately efficient, simple expressions. It is not a martingale that guarantees winning at the game of life, nor a recipe capable of erasing the annoyances of existence. — 2025-08-21

the task of man is one: to fashion the world by giving it a meaning. This meaning is not given ahead of time, just as the existence of each man is not justified ahead of time either.

— 2025-08-23

it is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of — 2025-08-23

Even the architect of the Tower of Babel thought that the sky was a ceiling and that someone would reach it one day. — 2025-08-23

There are men who claim to work the entire earth, and others will find a pot of flowers too vast. — 2025-08-24

One is not the neighbour of anyone; one makes the other a neighbour by making oneself [se faisant] his neighbour through an act. — 2025-08-24