French - Philosopher | February 3, 1909 - August 24, 1943
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
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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
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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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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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