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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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  • One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
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  • Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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  • Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
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  • Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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  • The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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  • The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
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  • The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.
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  • The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
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  • The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
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  • The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
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  • The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
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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.
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  • The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.
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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.
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  • The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
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  • The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
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  • The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
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  • The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
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  • The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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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.
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