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Ideas Quotes by Simone Weil
- Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
- Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no…
- I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries…
- 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…
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