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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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits...

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits...

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that...

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that...

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the...

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the...

I can, therefore I am.

I can, therefore I am.

Pain is the root of knowledge

Pain is the root of knowledge

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,...

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...

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what...

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what...

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation...

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation...

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...

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live,...

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live,...

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...

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like...

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like...

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent...

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent...

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on...

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on...

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...

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...

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

What is neither a crime nor a sin is what you should get busy doing.

What is neither a crime nor a sin is what you should get busy doing.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint;...

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint;...