Simone Weil | intelligence
The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil | intelligence
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Simone Weil | imagination
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.
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Simone Weil | hope
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.
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Simone Weil | history
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.
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Simone Weil | great
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
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Simone Weil | god
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.