Simone Weil Quotes

• Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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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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• I can, therefore I am.

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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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• In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

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

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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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• I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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• I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

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• If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

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• Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

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• It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

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• Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

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• In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

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• It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

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• It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

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• The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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• A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

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

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• A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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

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