Simone Weil Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

  Simone Weil

  Truth, Desire, Impossible

  Simone Weil (1970). “First and last notebooks”

• Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

  Simone Weil

  Crush, Truth, Men

  Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

• Truth is one, but error is manifold.

  Simone Weil

  Truth, Errors, Truth Is

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.66, Routledge

• The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

  Simone Weil

  Truth, Dwelling, Long

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

  Simone Weil

  Truth, Lying, People

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