Simone Weil Short Quotes

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Truth is a radiant manifestation of reality.

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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

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Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

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The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

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The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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One is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.

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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

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

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Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

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What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

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The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

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At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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At the very least, a mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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Time's violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

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One cannot imagine St Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

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Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

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We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

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The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

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The first thing that we know about ourselves is our imperfection.

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The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make it.

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Economics has not yet had a Thales, an Archimedes, or a Lavoisier.

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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.

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