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Him Quotes by Simone Weil
- We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The…
- Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as…
- 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 right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should…
- As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent…
- It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his…
- Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to…
- 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…
- 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…
- Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we…
- The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the…
- Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom…
- 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…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice… — Carl von Clausewitz
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that… — Paulo Coelho
- The angel brought you back." "Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for… — Cassandra Clare