Simone Weil Quotes

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

~ Simone Weil

Art Consumed District Like Most Ought Wines Works

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

~ Simone Weil

Anything Contrary Destination Idea Nothing Origin Other Poison Progress Than

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Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

~ Simone Weil

Less Machine Nothing Than

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One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

~ Simone Weil

About Cannot Francis Imagine Rights Talking

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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

~ Simone Weil

Clearly Does Give Inexorable Invincible Oppression Revolt Rise Submission

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Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

~ Simone Weil

Cause Conflict International Likely More Petroleum Than Wheat

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

~ Simone Weil

Domain Else Genius Humility Nothing Real Supernatural Thought Virtue

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

~ Simone Weil

Civilization Contemporary Form Founded Greatness Lies Spirituality True True Greatness Work

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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.

~ Simone Weil

Any Bread Danger Doubt Hungry Itself Lest Lie Persuade Should Soul Whether

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

~ Simone Weil

Crimes Destruction Greatest Past Perhaps

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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

~ Simone Weil

Future Made Present Same Same Stuff Stuff

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The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

~ Simone Weil

Attention Ecstasy Fullest Highest

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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

~ Simone Weil

Cell Condemned His Intelligence Intelligent Intelligent Man Large Like Man Proud Who

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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

~ Simone Weil

Important Important Part Know Most Part Teach Teaching The Most Important

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

~ Simone Weil

Affirmation Contemplation Degraded Faith Made Mysteries Negation Object Reality Should

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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

~ 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.

~ Simone Weil

Annihilation Dwelling Extreme Humiliation Long Long Time Only Own State Through Time Total Truth Truth Is Way

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The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

~ Simone Weil

Becomes Diseases Hitherto Like More Much Other Poison Skepticism Soil Some Tuberculosis

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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

~ Simone Weil

Denies Intelligence Merely Opinions Part Role Submit Us Which

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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.

~ Simone Weil

Any Because Degree Grandeur Laws Loyalty Oath Soul Springs True

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Simone Weil

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03 February, 1909

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24 August, 1943

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French Southern Territories

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