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Simone Weil Inspirational Quotes (210)

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Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
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Algebra and money are essentially levelers the first intellectually, the second effectively.
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
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Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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.
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The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.
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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
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A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.
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one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.
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Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
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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.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
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Distance is the soul of beauty.
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School children and students who love God should never say: For my part I like mathematics I like French I like Greek. They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.
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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
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The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.
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Fire destroys that which feeds it.
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