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Which Quotes by Simone Weil
- A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
- A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
- Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also…
- To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every…
- The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
- 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 only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today,…
- I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries…
- It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is…
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