You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.