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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
- Simone Weil
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#Opinions
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
- Simone Weil
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#God
#Science
#Us
#Worthless
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
- Simone Weil
#History
#Imagination
#Influence
#Life
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
- Simone Weil
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#Friendship
#Great
#Joy
#Life
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
- Simone Weil
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#Hard
#Pleasure
#Real
#Test
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
- Simone Weil
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#Even
#Evil
#Necessity
#Power
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
- Simone Weil
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#Human Being
#Human
#Intelligence
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, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
- Simone Weil
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#Labor
#Socialism
#Society
#Today
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
- Simone Weil
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#Faith
#God
#Love
#Simply
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
- Simone Weil
#Contemplation
#Faith
#Reality
#Should
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
- Simone Weil
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#Life
#Need
#Order
#Pure
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 their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
- Simone Weil
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#Communication
#God
#Two
#Us
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
- Simone Weil
#Art
#Fabrication
#Like
#Most
#Ought
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
- Simone Weil
#Alone
#God
#Image
#Know
#More
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
- Simone Weil
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#Long
#Time
#Truth
#Way
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
- Simone Weil
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#Evil
#Knowledge
#Mystery
#Pain
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
- Simone Weil
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#Beauty
#Gives
#Never
#Promises
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
- Simone Weil
#Chance
#Coming
#Human Being
#Human
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
- Simone Weil
#Genius
#Humility
#Nothing
#Real
#Virtue
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
- Simone Weil
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#Bear
#Hurtful
#Others
#Which
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
- Simone Weil
#Future
#Made
#Present
#Same
#Stuff
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
- Simone Weil
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#Life Is A
#Life
#Parable
#Perfect
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
- Simone Weil
#Intelligence
#Intelligent
#Man
#Proud
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
- Simone Weil
#Attachment
#Great
#Reality
#Someone
#Who
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
- Simone Weil
#Attention
#Ecstasy
#Fullest
#Highest
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
- Simone Weil
#Human
#Important
#Least
#Need
#Soul
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
- Simone Weil
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#He
#Impossible
#Matter
#Possible
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
- Simone Weil
#Equality
#Human
#Manners
#Recognition
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
- Simone Weil
#Beauty
#Equality
#Grace
#Man
#Truth
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
- Simone Weil
#Important
#Know
#Most
#Teach
#Teacher
Humility is attentive patience.
- Simone Weil
#Attentive
#Humility
#Patience
I can, therefore I am.
- Simone Weil
#Am
#I Am
#I Can
#Motivational
#Therefore
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
- Simone Weil
#Imagination
#Life
#More
#Real
#Three
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