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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone Weil
Art
More Quotes By Simone Weil
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone Weil
Language
Mind
Prison
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
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Acting
Fact
Respect
Spring
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone Weil
Civilization
Greatness
Lies
Spirituality
Work
I can, therefore I am.
Simone Weil
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.
Simone Weil
Day
Illness
Misfortune
Poverty
Suffering
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Simone Weil
Being
Intelligence
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
Nation
Renunciation
Self
War
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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Being
Doctrine
Purpose
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country
The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
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Extreme
State
Time
Truth
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
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God
Life
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
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Beliefs
Church
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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Affirmation
Contemplation
Faith
Reality
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
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Life
Order
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
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Destruction
Past
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil
Being
Evil
Knowledge
Mystery
Pain
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.
Simone Weil
History
Imagination
Influence
Life
Needs
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Simone Weil
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.
Simone Weil
Being
Chance
Hunger
Obligation
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.
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Danger
Doubt
Lie
Soul
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
Blame
Fear
Men
Punishment
Smiles
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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First
Force
Man
Truth
Victims
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
Hope
Labor
Socialism
Society
Today
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Class
Life
Men
Murder
Nothing
People
Spiritual
Value
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
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Charity
God
Love
Nothing
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil
Beauty
Promises
The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil
Intelligence
Opinions
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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Cause
Men
Order
Victory
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
Beauty
Equality
Grace
Humanism
Infinite
Liberty
Thinking
Truth
Value
Wrong
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Simone Weil
Contradiction
Lie
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.
Simone Weil
Nothing
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Simone Weil
Hell
Paradise
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.
Simone Weil
God
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone Weil
Duty
Evil
Necessity
Power
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
Simone Weil
Machine
Nothing
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone Weil
Faith
God
Love
May
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.
Simone Weil
Europe
Future
Germany
Historians
Nations
Past
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Simone Weil
Soul
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Simone Weil
God
Science
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
Simone Weil
Christ
Envy
Sin
Time
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
Simone Weil
Rights
Talking
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil
Serenity
Struggle
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil
Genius
Humility
Nothing
Supernatural
Thought
Virtue
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.
Simone Weil
Circumstances
Play
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
Fiction
Imagination
Life
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Simone Weil
Fools
Force
Ideas
Nothing
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Simone Weil
Affliction
Compassion
Listening
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Simone Weil
Order
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Simone Weil
Attention
Ecstasy
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Simone Weil
Art
Fault
Friendship
Joy
Life
Want