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Soul Quotes by Simone Weil
- Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The…
- The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is…
- Distance is the soul of beauty.
- 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…
- When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point…
- A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous…
- Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens…
- 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…
- Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
- Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
- The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should…
- To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
- The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it…
- There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not…
- Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them…
- Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and…
- All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty…
More Soul Quotes
- I don't know I really love u or not. But whenever I think about my life without u it kills me. Whenever… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle