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Simone Weil Inspirational Quotes (210)

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Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
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Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
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To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
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Humility is attentive patience.
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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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The villagers seldom leave the village many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
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The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.
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The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.
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I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
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Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
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Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.
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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
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The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.
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Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
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Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
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The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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