Simone Weil Quotes
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. - Simone Weil
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
- Simone Weil
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.
- Simone Weil
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.
- Simone Weil
When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
- Simone Weil
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
- Simone Weil
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
- Simone Weil
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.
- Simone Weil
Page 1 of 11
Next -> Last ->>
Random Authors
Chad Bankston |
Bo Roundy |
Bonzi Wells |
David Mok |
Frederick Jones |
Richard Boucher |
Toni Varacchi |
Cely Brinkmann |
Mark Chandler |
Kathy Murray |