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What sort of god would he be who dares not show his face?

There’s one part love in your heart, and five parts anger, and seven parts pride.

“But, your eyes being open, you saw no such thing.”
“You don’t think - not possibly - not as a mere hundredth chance - there might be things that are real though we can’t see them?”

What is the use of a sign which is itself only another riddle?… If they had an honest intention to guide us, why is their guidance not plain?

I did not yet know that, if you are ugly enough, all men (unless they hate you deeply) soon give up thinking of you as a woman at all.

For the world had broken in pieces and Psyche and I were not in the same piece.

‘Don’t you think the things people are most ashamed of are the things they can’t help?’

I thought of my ugliness and said nothing.

Who can feel ugly when the heart meets delight?

The sights of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other to the world‘s end.

Weakness, and work, are two comforts the gods have not taken from us.

The nearest thing we have to a defense against them (but there is no real defense) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one.

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and been like water, but thick and dark like blood.

(Of Psyche’s beauty) It was beauty that did not astonish you till afterwards when you had gone out of sight of her and reflected on it. While she was with you, you were not astonished. It seemed the most natural thing in the world.

It was always like that with the Fox; he was ashamed of loving poetry (“All folly, child“)…

I will write in this book what no one who has happiness would dare to write. I will accuse the gods…

The heart of the issue is anthropological realism. What is the reality of the human being?

Sex is in the driver’s seat; the Cosmo girl is its “liberated” passenger

Complementarity, therefore, equals inequality, and inequality always leads to domination and oppression.

Like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who wanted to “force people to be free”, de Beauvoir wants to do the same for women. But the freedom she has in mind is not really freedom at all. It is a deprivation of her nature…

“No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.“ -Simone de Beauvoir

Men enjoy transcendence, while women are trapped in immanence. Therefore, man becomes the role model for the “modern“ and “independent“ woman.

Whenever one’s philosophy is so alien to life that it proves to be unsatisfactory, unhealthy, and unlivable, we must conclude that it is unrealistic.

Freely chosen acts do have their repercussions, including those that annul the very freedom that produced them. Nature misused is nature in revolt, making freedom its first casualty.

It is important to note that in the absence of any concept of the “human“, there cannot be any concept of the “inhuman“.

Sartre- “I was led to unbelief not through conflicting dogma but through my grandparents’ indifference.”

Being precedes approval; goodness proceeds love.

Law without love is another way of defining the path to the culture of death.

A moral relationship exists between human beings that is more fundamental than one that is contractual.

On Marx’s “surrogate religion”: there is the promise of justice, redemption, joy, equality, community, and even a utopian paradise. But the one missing element – love – renders it empty and useless.

By absorbing individual persons into classes, he absolve them of any capacity for sin as well as any grounds for guilt.