Simone Weil Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Power, Order

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.128, Psychology Press

• The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

  Simone Weil

  Country, Power, Men

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

  Simone Weil

  Power

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.70, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

  Simone Weil

  Power, Purity, Contemplating

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

• Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

  Simone Weil

  Power, Ends, Understood

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.146, Psychology Press

• the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

  Simone Weil

  Taken, Power, Secret

  Simone Weil (2001). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.64, Psychology Press

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