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Letter "S" » Simone Weil Quotes
«Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
christ, commit, crucifixion, crucifixions, envy
«At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
at the bottom, committed, crimes, earliest, expecting, infancy, suffered, teeth, The Bottom, witnessed
«Humility is attentive patience.»
«In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
church, considered, degenerate, degenerated, degenerates, degenerating, inevitably, mysteries, organism, organisms, social, The Church
«There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.»
«When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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aspiration, damaged, due, due to, negligence, not due, privation, privations, sacrilege, sensibilities, sensibility, suffers, wound
«Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
come back, contemplation, data, experiment, Human Relations, impenetrable, inexplicable, in relation to, opacity, relation, relation to, wretchedness
«The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
apprentice, apprentices, apprenticeship, breathing, caricatured, caricatures, indispensable, Joy of, lacking, students, trade
«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.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conceived, defined, morality, notion, public, public morality, set up, standard, tyranny
«If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.»
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