Contemplating Quote by Simone Weil Download Open image “Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.” — Simone Weil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemplating Defilement Inspirational Power Purity
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification… — Alice Glass Copy Share Image
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.We need to execute people like John… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
