100 Quotations by Simone Weil
- 81. To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
- 82. To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
- 83. To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
- 84. To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to ...
- 85. To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing i ...
- 86. To write the lives of the great, in separating them from their works, necessarily ends by above all ...
- 87. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is th ...
- 88. We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits -- and we bow our heads. W ...
- 89. We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an ima ...
- 90. We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
- 91. What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to li ...
- 92. Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
- 93. When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door ...
- 94. When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due t ...
- 95. When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outsid ...
- 96. When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o ...
- 97. Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to ...
- 98. Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And o ...
- 99. Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
- 100. With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorro ...
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