Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

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• My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Daughter
  • Object
  • Flash

• Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • More
  • Object

• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Force
  • Terror
  • Superior

• "Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Say
  • Statement
  • Object

• Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Appeals
  • Passive
  • Maverick

• After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Yoga
  • Passive

• In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.

  

  August Krogh
  • Small
  • Communication
  • Direct

• We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Passive
  • Quarter

• Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Wealth

• I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

  

  Plato
  • Reality
  • Knowledge
  • Object

• It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

  

  Plato
  • Impossible
  • One
  • Conceive

• I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Intensity
  • Terrified
  • Passive

• If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • Envy

• Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

  

  Confucius
  • Love
  • Demands
  • Object

• Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Remember
  • Negative
  • Sentences

• The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knows
  • One
  • Realizes

• On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Knows
  • One

• We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Life
  • Women
  • Passive

• There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Wish
  • Mean
  • Ifs

• I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • People
  • Albums
  • Singles

• To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Object
  • One
  • Passive