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Simone Weil

Simone Weil

French philosopher

Lived from: 1909 - 1943

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagFrance

Born: 3 february 1909 Died: 24 august 1943

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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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  • I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
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  • I can, therefore I am.
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  • I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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 Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
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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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  • Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.
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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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  • In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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  • 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.
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  • In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
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  • 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.
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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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  • It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
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  • Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
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  • Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
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  • Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
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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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  • Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
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