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This World Quotes by Simone Weil
- At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by…
- In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social…
- All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and…
- 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…
- Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
More This World Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you? — Rumi
- In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and… — Johann Arndt
- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott