"Sex is good. Everybody does it and everybody should."
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"Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men."
"Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt."
"Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you."
"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
"But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience."
"My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does."
"If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does."
"A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion."
"The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor."
"but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again."
"He knows the universe and does not know himself."
"It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable."
"Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct something to take its place."
"One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be."
"...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner"
"Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!"
"The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor."
"Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool."
"Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered."