All Quotes

“I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all.”

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

“I believe everything happens for a reason, so you can't dwell on it too much.”

“I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I'm the first Simone Biles.”

“Mental health is just as important as physical health.”

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom . The Blood of Others [ Le sang des autres ]”

“His personal prestige, his qualities, his competence assure him a preponderant role however; since 1927 he has been above all the unchallenged specialist on peasant question. But the power he exercises is no more dictatorial than, for example, Roosevelt 's was. New China's Constitution renders impossible the concentration of authority in one man's hands; the country is governed by a team whose members have been united through a long common struggle and by a close friendship. On Mao Zedong , in The Long March . World Publishing Company. 1958. p. 427.”

“The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion. On her work All Men are Mortal in Force of Circumstances (1963), p. 73”

“Il n'y a pas de mort naturelle: rien de ce qui arrive à l'homme n'est jamais naturel puisque sa présence met le monde en question. Tous les hommes sont mortels: mais pour chaque homme sa mort est un accident et, même s'il la connaît et y consent, une violence indue. There is no such thing as a natural death : nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die; but for every man his death is an accident and even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.”

“Une Mort Très Douce (1964) translated by Patrick O'Brian as A Very Easy Death (1965) last words”

“It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself... It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do”

“What is an adult? A child puffed with age. The Woman Destroyed [ La Femme rompue ]”

“But presently I began to bubble with happiness. No, my daughters' absence did not sadden me at all”

“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth”

“A Dialogue with Simone de Beauvoir,”

“I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty. Plato , Symposium , 175d”

“It would be better for me... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself. Gorgias , 482c”

“In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. Phaedrus”

“Oh dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him. Socrates' prayer, Phaedrus , 279”

“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. Plato, Crito 49c”

“Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding? Crito”

“Nothing is to be preferred before justice”

“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. Theaetetus , 155d”

“ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδὲν ἐπίσταμαι πλέον πλὴν βραχέος, ὅσον λόγον παρ᾽ ἑτέρου σοφοῦ λαβεῖν καὶ ἀποδέξασθαι μετρίως. I myself know nothing, except just a little, enough to extract an argument from another man who is wise and to receive it fairly.”

“Theaetetus , 161b”

“Mathematics is the science of the infinite.”

“Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.”

“Many who have not studied mathematics confuse it with arithmetic.”

“The mathematician has to be a poet.”

“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet.”