There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

Quote by Simone Weil

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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...

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if...

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Pain is the root of knowledge

Pain is the root of knowledge

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on...

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on...

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal...

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal...