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Simone Weil quotes

French Philosopher February 3, 1909 – August 24, 1943

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Simone Weil quote: "Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of..."
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. Simone Weil
Simone Weil quote: "Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure."
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. Simone Weil
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. Simone Weil
And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.'To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so. Simone Weil
We cannot take a single step towards heaven. It is not In our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up. He raises us easily. Simone Weil
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. Simone Weil
At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space of partial truth,... Simone Weil
The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God. Simone Weil
Simone Weil quote: "The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that..."
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it. Simone Weil
There are four evidences of divine mercy here below. The favors of God to beings capable of contemplation (these states exist and form part of their experience as creatures). The radiance of these beings, and their compassion, which is the divine compassion in them. The beauty of the world. The fourth evidence is the complete absence of mercy here below. Simone Weil
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. Simone Weil
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not. Simone Weil
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. Simone Weil
Simone Weil quote: "True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world."
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world. Simone Weil
Simone Weil quote: "Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. Simone Weil

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