Quotes about Simone Weil

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots...

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Humility is attentive patience.

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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite...

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

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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as...

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

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

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Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of...

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as...

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Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will...

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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to...

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