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Good Quotes by Simone Weil
- Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The…
- At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in…
- At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by…
- All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and…
- When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or…
- The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
- Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
- To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for…
- No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.
- I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have…
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- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle