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Truth is one, but error is manifold.
Simone Weil
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Simone Weil
Age: 34 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 3
Died: 1943
Died: August 24
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French Resistance Fighter
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Simone Adolphine Weil
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More quotes by Simone Weil
There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
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The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
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Necessity is God's veil.
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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.
Simone Weil
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
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Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
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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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We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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I am not a Catholic but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
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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.
Simone Weil
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?
Simone Weil
The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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