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Great Quotes by Simone Weil
- The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act…
- The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.
- The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode…
- To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in…
- Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
- To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
- With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he…
- Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the…
- The only great spirit of our time.
- Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like…
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- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- A little praise goes a great ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- One of the great thing that A Christian can do is to draw closer to GOD inspite of all the hindrances. I… — Pacifiersucker