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Science is voiceless it is the scientists who talk.
Simone Weil
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Simone Weil
Age: 34 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 3
Died: 1943
Died: August 24
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Simone Adolphine Weil
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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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It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Compassion directed to oneself is humility.
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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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When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
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We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.
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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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Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
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Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.
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Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
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