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Simone Weil


French
February 3, 1909
Philosopher
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.


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Tags: Fill Sins
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.


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Nothing is less instructive than a machine.


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Tags: Than Nothing Less
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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.


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Tags: Must Real Prefer
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.


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Tags: Future Made Same
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Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.


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Tags: More Than Cause
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.


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Tags: God Science Which
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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.


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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.


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Tags: Like Most Art
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.


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Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Tags: Never Only New
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.


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Tags: God Faith Love
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.


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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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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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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
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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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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
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I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
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