Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I can, therefore I am. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
All sins are attempts to fill voids. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The most important part of teaching to teach what it is to know. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian rTgimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Simone Weil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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