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intelligence Simone Weil

Simone Weil | intelligence

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

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intelligence 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 | imagination

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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hope Simone Weil

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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history Simone Weil

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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God Simone Weil

Simone Weil | god

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

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God Simone Weil

Simone Weil | god

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

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God Simone Weil

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.

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