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Doe Quotes by Simone Weil
- Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
- The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
- A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
- Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
- Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
- 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…
- Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and…
- It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of…
- Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
- One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
- He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as…
- 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…
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