In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Quote by Simone Weil

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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends...

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends...

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to...

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to...

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the...

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the...

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a...

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a...

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite...

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite...

Humility is attentive patience.

Humility is attentive patience.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in...

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in...

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

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

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on...

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on...

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who...

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who...

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are...

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are...

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but...

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but...

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The...

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The...

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely,...

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely,...

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

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

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will...

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will...

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as...

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as...