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Simone Weil Inspirational Quotes (210)

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Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
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Science is voiceless it is the scientists who talk.
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If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.
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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.
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All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.
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the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.
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We only possess what we renounce what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.
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Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
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There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
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The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
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Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.
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