100 Quotations by Simone Weil
- 61. The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
- 62. The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it shou ...
- 63. The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
- 64. The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
- 65. The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you go ...
- 66. The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
- 67. The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, whe ...
- 68. The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons o ...
- 69. The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as ...
- 70. The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for s ...
- 71. The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more ...
- 72. The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their i ...
- 73. The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of tho ...
- 74. The role of the intelligence -- that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is ...
- 75. The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when o ...
- 76. There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the ...
- 77. There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying ...
- 78. There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of ...
- 79. Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them thei ...
- 80. Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
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