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Simone Weil
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
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. Simone Weil
Power Nothing Humility Virtue More Attention Nor Intellectual Than Order Less
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. Simone Weil
Power Possess Over Get
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. Simone Weil
Rights Francis About Talking Cannot Imagine
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. Simone Weil
Highest Attention Ecstasy Fullest
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. Simone Weil
Country Those More Than Inflicted Suffer Her
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. Simone Weil
Knowledge Evil Pain Mystery Being Root
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. Simone Weil
Great Human Being Matter Too On The Contrary Destroyed Find Seems Misfortune He Taken Individually Sorrow Him Because Always Contrary Precious Human Being Anything Either Reasons Mediocre Suit
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. Simone Weil
Tyranny Every Defined Kind Neither Morality Open Conceived Nor Up Door Which Public Notion Standard Set
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Simone Weil
War People Country Live Vital Make Calls Interests Help Things
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. Simone Weil
Respect Spring Every Other Valid Considers Critic Seems More Fact Layman Performing Performing Arts Himself Than Any Lack Arts Acting
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
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. Simone Weil
Future Past Thanks Enslave Destroy Would Pronounce Civilized Had Most She Were His Historians Germany Nations Certainly Europe European European Nations Treasures
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
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. Simone Weil
Fools Nothing Once Corpses Easier More Brute Brute Force Ideas Dead Force Spread Were Than Cannot Story 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
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. Simone Weil
Considered Circumstances Characteristic Would More More Or Less Becomes Permanent According Human Which Barbarism Less Play Universal Suggest
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
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. Simone Weil
Dreams Pleasant Pleasure Joys Real Test Hard Rough Found Belongs
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. Simone Weil
Loyalty Soul Degree Oath Laws True Because Springs Any Grandeur
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. Simone Weil
Life Pure Does Itself Order Need
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. Simone Weil
Truth Man Truth Is First Possesses He Nobody Crushes Force Does Victims Really Who Second Thinks
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. Simone Weil
War Nation Except Make Ready Renunciation Option Anything Including
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