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Giving Quotes by Simone Weil
- 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.…
- When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this…
- In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of…
- Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
- Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
- Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
- To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
- One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is…
- There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us,…
- Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
- Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
- 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…
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- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. — Swami Vivekananda