“An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Atheism
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“Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Destiny
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“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Intelligence
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“The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Intelligence
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“To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don’t know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Morality
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“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct … and to refrain from destruction.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
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“Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Charity
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“Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Beauty
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“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Soul
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“One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reality
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“Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
Simone Weil
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Power
