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Life Quotes by Simone Weil
- Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
- Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
- To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
- Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
- Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials,…
- When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value,…
- Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
- There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us,…
- One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
- I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have…
- Love is not consolation, it is light.
- Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
- One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards…
- If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at…
- 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…
- 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…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle