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One Quotes by Simone Weil
- The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
- Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being....
- The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.…
- When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this…
- The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode…
- We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The…
- There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
- It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one…
- One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
- Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is…
- We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
- One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is…
- There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
- Truth is one, but error is manifold.
- There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
- 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…
- 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…
- In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
- The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
- An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster