Simone Weil Quotes
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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.
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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
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