Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in…

Quote by Simone Weil

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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

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...

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...

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence...

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence...

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...

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that...

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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

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

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of...

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of...

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...

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured...

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured...

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory...

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory...

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and...

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and...

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new...

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new...