As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.