Simone Weil Quotes

• The word ‘revolution’ is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

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• One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with the movement of pure charity are false.

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• Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

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• The beauty of the world is almost the only way by which we can allow God to penetrate us…the beauty of the world is the commonest, easiest and most natural way of approach.

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

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• To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don’t know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

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

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  Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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• He who has not God in himself cannot feel his absence.

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  In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

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• We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

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• There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

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• What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things, which enable its citizens to live, but the things, which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

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• Love is not consolation. It is light.

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• The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

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• Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don’t happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don’t understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.

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• There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

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• The role of the intelligence -that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

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• There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

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• Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

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Birth:	3rd February, 1909
Death:	24th August, 1943
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher

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