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Humans Quotes by Simone Weil
- Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- 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…
- Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable…
- 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…
- The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is…
- 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…
- In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social…
- In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps)…
- The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality,…
- There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
- Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens…
- Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
- The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
- Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to…
- Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs…
- To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
- 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…
- Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
- Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
- Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless…
More Humans Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin