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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…
- Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in…
- The world is God's language to us.
- 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…
- On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.
- Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens…
- There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is…
- The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
- When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body."…
- The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
- Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
- 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…
- True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
- The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
More World Quotes
- I learned one most important thing in my life. That nonody in this whole world can understand you correctly. Except yourself. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Being a honest n nice person is most difficult thing in this world. As nobody likes the company of a person that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson