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"33 Simone Weil Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 3 February 1909. Died: 24 August 1943 | Philosopher | Mystic | Activist |

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Love Consolation Light
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Love God Inspire Gratitude
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity

Everything Beautiful Mark Eternity
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Go down Ourselves Possess Desire
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility

Compassion Directed True Humility
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Science Study Beauty World
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Wish Troubles Grace Transform
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He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence

He God Feel Absence
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Imagination Fiction Make Life
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison

Mind Enclosed Language Prison
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Art Construct Refrain Destruction
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Science Nearer God Worthless
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

True greatness Civilization Spirituality Work
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Cut away ruthlessly everything that is imaginary in your feelings.

Cut away Everything Imaginary Feelings
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To find extraordinary difficulty in doing an ordinary action is a favor which calls for gratitude.

Find Ordinary Favour Gratitude
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of His with the certainty of experience. I have touched it.

God Mercy Wealth Experience
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Creative attention means really giving our attention to what does not exist.

Creative Attention Means Exist
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The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.

Sum Intentions God Universe
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Let us love this distance, which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated.

Love Distance Friendship Seperated
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Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right to the soul.

Beauty Flesh Permission Soul
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If the error is thrust deeply enough into the soul, man cannot but succumb to it

Error Soul Man Succumb
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To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Hero One Order Oneself
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The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Danger Doubt Lie Soul
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors.

Culture Instrument Professors Manufacture
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The social order, though necessary, is essentially evil, whatever it may be.

Social order Necessary Evil Whatever
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Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

Time's Violence Soul Eternity
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Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt

Men Imagine Owe Forgive
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Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Liberty Word Ability Choose
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The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

World Barrier Time Way through
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Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it

Love Life Order Serve
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Evil Power Necessity Duty
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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Destruction Past Greatest Crimes
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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Important Part Teaching Know
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Simone Weil Quotes & Sayings