Simone Weil Quotes

• The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

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• The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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• Humility is attentive patience.

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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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• When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

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• When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

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• With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

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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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• The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

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• The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

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• The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

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• To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

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• We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

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• To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

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• Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

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• To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human 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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• There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

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• We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

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• We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits – and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

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Birth:	3rd February, 1909
Death:	24th August, 1943
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher

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