Needs Quotes by Simone Weil

13 Needs quotes by Simone Weil

Simone Weil’s thirteen reflections on needs cut to the philosophical core of desire, offering a sobering yet compassionate view. Her austere style invites readers to contemplate the moral dimensions of what we seek.

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The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

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Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

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The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.

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The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

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Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due…

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Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion…

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Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it…

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The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other…

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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to…

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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…

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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…

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A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the…

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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.

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The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

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To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

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