The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Quote by Simone Weil

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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...

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are...

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are...

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

Humility is attentive patience.

Humility is attentive patience.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

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 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...

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel...

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel...

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind...

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind...