French - Philosopher | February 3, 1909 - August 24, 1943
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Simone Weil
SinsFillAttempts
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
PeopleWorldGivingUnhappyNeed
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
LifeFriendshipGreatArtJoyWant
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.
ChanceHumanHimHungerHuman Being
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.
WorkGreatBestWriteAboveBecause
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
LoveGodCharityNothingHumanFar
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
ProgressDestinationNothingAnything
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.
DaySufferingThinkPovertyKnow
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.
FriendsMeetingSeparationTwoFar
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.
GodImpossibleMatterPossibleOver
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.
PlayCircumstancesMoreHumanWould
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
LieDoorImpossibleKnowResolve
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