Simone Weil

Simone Weil

"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
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"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
Simone Weil
"I can, therefore I am."
Simone Weil
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
Simone Weil
"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."
Simone Weil
"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."
Simone Weil
"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
Simone Weil
"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."
Simone Weil
"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."
Simone Weil
"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."
Simone Weil
"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
"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
"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
"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."
Simone Weil
"Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being."
Simone Weil
"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
Simone Weil
"Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings."
Simone Weil
"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."
Simone Weil
"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."
Simone Weil
"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
"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
Simone Weil
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