Famous Quotes / Simone Weil
100 Quotations by Simone Weil
- 41. In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below begg ...
- 42. It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a ...
- 43. It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics ...
- 44. It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time ...
- 45. Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. ...
- 46. Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
- 47. Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case ...
- 48. Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train ma ...
- 49. More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact ...
- 50. Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of p ...
- 51. Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
- 52. One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
- 53. One of the indispensable foods for the human soul is liberty.
- 54. Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
- 55. Pain is the root of knowledge.
- 56. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
- 57. Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
- 58. Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
- 59. The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occas ...
- 60. The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost ...