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Thinking Quotes by Simone Weil
- 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.…
- It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
- ...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking…
- It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in…
- Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
- Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
- If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it…
- Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the…
- It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of…
- One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is…
- Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
- Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we…
- Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for…
- 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…
- 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…
- Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello