Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors

Quote by Simone Weil

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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as...

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as...

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots...

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots...

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that...

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that...

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

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

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

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

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

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual...

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual...

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves,...

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves,...

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human...

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human...

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...

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time...

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time...

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...

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult...

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult...

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...

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored...

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored...

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence