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• A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.

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  Evil, Church, Mixtures

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

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  Peace, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.11, Routledge

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• A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

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  Wall, Hate, Men

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

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  Evil, Suffering, Together

  Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

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

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  Truth, Desire, Impossible

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

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• One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

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  Degrees, Movement, Charity

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.41, Routledge

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• The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

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  Lying, Greatness, Civilization

  "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind".

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• To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

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  Weight, Bears, Innocent

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.91, Psychology Press

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• Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

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  Men, Europe, People

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• Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

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  Men, Giving, Debt

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.9, Psychology Press

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• Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

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  Self, Iron, Hatred

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.40, Routledge

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• If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul.

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  Light, Knowing, Soul

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

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• The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

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  Expression, Personality, Privilege

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.74, Routledge

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• All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

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  Atheist, Acceptance, Order

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• Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

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  Education, Children, Creating

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• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.

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  Art, Philosophy, Science

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.13, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

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  Life, Happiness, Play

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.124, Psychology Press

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• No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

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  Inspirational, Desire, Movement

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

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• Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

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  Love Is, Abdication, Command

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• What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

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  Innocence, Ifs

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.136, Psychology Press

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• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

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• Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

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  Past, Entering, Eternity

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.37, Psychology Press

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• Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

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  Science, Voiceless, Scientist

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "Reflections on quantum theory," p. 57, 1968.

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• The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

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  Thinking, Branches, Speed

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.13, Routledge

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• The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

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  Beautiful, Proof, Incarnation

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.440, Routledge

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