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Only Quotes by Simone Weil
- The only great spirit of our time.
- Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom…
- 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…
- 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…
- The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility…
- I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I…
- Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the…
- We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
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