Simone Weil Quotes - Page 9

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• Necessity is God's veil.

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  Veils

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.104, Psychology Press

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• In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

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  God, Views, Giving

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• In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

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  Beautiful, Reality, Evil

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

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• The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

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  Opposites, Transcendental, Contradictory

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• The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

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  Tuberculosis, Poison, Disease

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

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  Fighting, Prejudice, Missions

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.55, Psychology Press

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• War is the supreme form of prestige.

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  War, Prestige, Form

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.25, Routledge

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• Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.

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  Taken, Humanity, Individual

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.154, Psychology Press

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• The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

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  Real, Mind, Tests

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• When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

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  Hurt, Pain, Tired

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• If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.

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  Girl, Rights, Sound

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

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  Belief, Divine, Certainty

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.80, Routledge

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• One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.

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  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

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  Women, Hero, Order

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• Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

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  Ideas, Fragility, Stories

  "Three Letters on History: Thophile de Viau" (written 1938 - 1939)

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• The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

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  Evil, Boredom, Soul

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.226, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

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  Atheist, Objectivity, Majority

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

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• The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

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  Philosophy, Science, Years

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.335, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

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  Ideas, Firsts, Weakness

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

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• One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.19, Routledge

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• There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

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  Humility, Pride, Exercise

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.365, Routledge

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• What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

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  Country, Peace, War

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• The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

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  Compassion, Hungry, Contemplation

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• We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

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  God, Long, Heaven

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.73, Routledge

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• Truth is one, but error is manifold.

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  Truth, Errors, Truth Is

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

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