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Simone Weil Inspirational Quotes (210)

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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.
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The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
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Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.
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Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.
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Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Compassion directed to oneself is humility.
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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
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Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
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One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
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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.
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It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.
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If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.
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Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.
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One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.
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We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.
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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
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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.
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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