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Universal Quotes by Simone Weil
- Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens…
- I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of…
- 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…
More Universal Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau
- Each one of us has all the wisdom and knowledge we ever need right within us. It is available to us through… — Shakti Gawain
- The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, 'This is what I think; there's the truth.' I try to think of… — Roseanne Barr