100 Quotations by Simone Weil
- 1. A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being d ...
- 2. A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
- 3. A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
- 4. A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its opti ...
- 5. A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is ple ...
- 6. All sins are attempts to fill voids.
- 7. An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
- 8. Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- 9. At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is some ...
- 10. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is deta ...
- 11. Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
- 12. Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
- 13. Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, ...
- 14. Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the princi ...
- 15. Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in w ...
- 16. Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
- 17. Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
- 18. Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. ...
- 19. Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
- 20. Fire destroys that which feeds it.
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