Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

On ne s'interesse au matériel humain que dans la mesure ou il rapporte

Simone de Beauvoir

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Topic

Society and the individual The individual

Author

Simone de Beauvoir

Source

The Coming of Age

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Feminist Philosopher Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

De Beauvoir, Simone. La Vieillesse [The Coming of Age]. Éditions Gallimard, 1970.

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Another quote originally in French

Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain. And the future as the past would be present to its eyes.

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Source
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
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Time
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Citation

Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.