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Inspirational Quotes by Simone Weil
- The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
- Fire destroys that which feeds it.
- The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.
- Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
- We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The…
- Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
- Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
- The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.
- Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
- It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
- Official history is believing the murderers at their word.
- Distance is the soul of beauty.
- A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
- The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
- To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
- We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
- The world is God's language to us.
- One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
- We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
- Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.
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