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Letter "S" » Simone Weil Quotes
«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 consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself / only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
beggary, deprived, foremost, to the lowest degree, without consideration
«In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.»
«If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.»
«The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
attributed, in question, subordinated
«To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.»
«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.»
«It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.»
«A mind enclosed in language is in prison.»
«A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.»
«To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
last century, noticing, radically, that name, turn of the century
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