There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?