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

Quote by Simone Weil

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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...

Humility is attentive patience.

Humility is attentive patience.

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...

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of...

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of...

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to...

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to...

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose...

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose...

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...

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be...

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be...

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Pain is the root of knowledge

Pain is the root of knowledge

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its...

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its...

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...

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

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

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day,...

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day,...

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of...

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of...

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from...

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from...

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.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it...

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it...