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Simone Weil Quotes

«Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty»
«A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.»
«All sins are attempts to fill voids.»
Author: Simone Weil (Activist, Mystic, Philosopher) | About: Sin | Keywords: sins, voids
«The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real»
Author: Simone Weil (Activist, Mystic, Philosopher) | About: Poets | Keywords: fixing, produces
«Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.»
«Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.»
«Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.»
«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.»
«The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.»
«Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.»
Author: Simone Weil (Activist, Mystic, Philosopher) | About: Listening | Keywords: affliction

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