QUOTES by Simone Weil
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"The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."
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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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"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
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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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"In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish."
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"We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."
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"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."
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"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."
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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 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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"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
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"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
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"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."
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"The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry."
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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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"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission."
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"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."
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"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."
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"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too."
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"In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs."
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"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."
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"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful."
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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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"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her."
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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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"In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie."
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"Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?"
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"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."
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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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"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
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"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
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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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"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
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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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