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There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.
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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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.
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Necessity is God's veil.
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Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
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Humility is attentive patience.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
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