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Letter "S" » Simone Weil Quotes
«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.»
«Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
last century, possessing, state of affairs
«To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.»
«What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.»
«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.»
«In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
burglar, householder, in relation to, owner
«The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
centuries, contradictory, debts, necessities, oscillated, oscillates, oscillating, payment, serenely, social order, unaware
«In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.»
«Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.»
«The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.»
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