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Simone Weil Inspirational Quotes (210)

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In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
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There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
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Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive
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What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?
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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
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We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
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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.
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
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One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country, said Anatole France, but he is dying for a few industrialists. But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .
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There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
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The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.
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The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.
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Renunciation is submission to time.
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Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
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