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Simone Weil

1909 - 1943. French philosopher, politician and activist.

1. "Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny."

source: "Lectures in philosophy"

categories: Authority, Government

2. "What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium."

source: "Human Personality"

categories: Human

3. "To desire friendship is a great fault. Friendship should be a gratuitous joy like those afforded by art or life. We must refuse it so that we may be worthy to receive it; it is of the order of grace."

source: "Love"

categories: Friendship and Hostility

4. "The true subject of science is the beauty of the world."

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Science and Technology

5. "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell."

categories: Intellect, Judgement

6. "If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence."

source: "Detachment"

categories: God and Religion

7. "I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness."

categories: Forgiveness

8. "God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves."

source: "Love"

categories: God and Religion -:- Love

9. "Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."

categories: God and Religion -:- Life and Death

10. "Culture is an instrument wielded by professors, to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors."

source: "The Need for Roots"

categories: Art and Culture

11. "All sins are attempts to fill voids."

source: "Gravity and Grace"

categories: Sin and Conscience


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