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Simone Weil
French Philosopher
Born: Feb 3, 1909
Died: Aug 24, 1943
Does Every God Life Nothing Who
Related authors: Albert Camus Blaise Pascal Henri Bergson Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Michel de Montaigne Montesquieu Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. Simone Weil
Soul Important Recognized Perhaps Most Least Human The Most Important Rooted Human Soul Need
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil
Great Reality Detached Someone Only Attachment Attained Who Illusions
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. Simone Weil
Made Crushed Nothing Side Unless Oneself Feel Feels Crushing Understand Oppressed Person Human Human Beings Happening Cannot Placed Them Who Beings
Humility is attentive patience. Simone Weil
Patience Humility Attentive
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. Simone Weil
Truth Man Equality Grace Liberty Value Beauty Thinking Wrong Himself Without Get Infinite Them Humanism
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. Simone Weil
Truth Time Truth Is Humiliation Long Long Time Own State Extreme Way Total Only Through Annihilation Dwelling
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. Simone Weil
Obligation Human Being Hunger Toward Him Coming His Human Being Eternal Suffer Assistance Chance
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. Simone Weil
Listening Compassion Affliction Difficult Someone Know Him Listen Just Really
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. Simone Weil
Work Spirituality Lies Civilization True Contemporary True Greatness Greatness Form Founded
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. Simone Weil
Destruction Past Crimes Perhaps Greatest
A mind enclosed in language is in prison. Simone Weil
Language Mind Prison Enclosed
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. Simone Weil
Power Possess Over Get
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. Simone Weil
Work Best Great Above Write Put Because Ends Them Themselves Separating Works Pettiness Lives Necessarily Stressing
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. Simone Weil
Culture Will More Instrument Still Turn Teachers Manufacture Who
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. Simone Weil
God Alone Our One Thing About More Only He Contemplate Know Him Thing Image
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. Simone Weil
Lie Impossible Resolve Except Know Contradiction Door Then Really

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