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future Simone Weil

Simone Weil | future

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.

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future Simone Weil

Simone Weil | future

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

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friendship Simone Weil

Simone Weil | friendship

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

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Fear Simone Weil

Simone Weil | fear

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

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Faith Simone Weil

Simone Weil | faith

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

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Faith Simone Weil

Simone Weil | faith

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

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equality Simone Weil

Simone Weil | equality

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

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equality Simone Weil

Simone Weil | equality

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

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Dreams Simone Weil

Simone Weil | dreams

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

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communication Simone Weil

Simone Weil | communication

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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