Simone Weil Quotes - Page 14

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• Man alone can enslave man.

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  Men, Slavery

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.90, Routledge

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• If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

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  Thinking, World Suffering, Want Something

  Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

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• Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

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  Life, Order, Doe

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.

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  Desire, May, Immortality

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.15, Psychology Press

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• Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

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  Israel, Rome, Atheism

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.30, Psychology Press

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• Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.

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  Exercise, Men, Essence

  "The Needs of the Soul (1949)". "The Need for Roots". Book by Simone Weil, p. 97, 1949.

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• Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

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  Evil, Infinity, Hell

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• The only great spirit of our time.

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  Time, Spirit, Our Time

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.2, Routledge

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

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  Thinking, Crucifixion Of Christ, Envy

  Waiting on God Letter 4 (1950)

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• We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

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  God, Facts, God Is There

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.267, Routledge

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• Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

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  Beauty, Trying, Looks

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.150, Psychology Press

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• There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

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  Evil, Morality, Aliens

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 169, 1968.

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• Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

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  Beautiful, Spiritual, Circles

  Simone Weil (2002). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.286, Psychology Press

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• We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

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  Action, Should, Righteous

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.150, Routledge

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• Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

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  Punishment, Soul, Needs

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.19, Routledge

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• We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

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  World, Chance, Mere

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.26, Psychology Press

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• science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.

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  Science, Past, Discovery

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

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  Doors, Tyrants, Morality

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world--and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish--she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.

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  Country, Hate, Men

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.194, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

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  Glasses, Doe, Seeing

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• A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

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  Rights

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.2, Routledge

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• It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

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  Beauty, Essence, Vices

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.61, Routledge

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

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  Power

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

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• Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Justice

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.84, Routledge

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• Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

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  Peace, War, Wheat

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