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Simone Weil Quotes
«There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
actual, amuses, amusing, awaken, density, equivalent, fiction, fiction writer, grasp, guise, offers, Real Genius, something else, The Works, unable, writers
«In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Country,
Democracy,
Peace
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, cuckoo, cuckoos, cuckoo clock, five hundred, Switzerland
«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.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
compulsions, crowd, dynamic, fabric, indirect, interests, materials, The Crowd
«More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Respect
| Keywords:
art critic, considers, layman, laymen, performing, performing arts, valid
«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.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Equality
| Keywords:
due to, effectively, equality, expressed, institutions, manners, recognition
«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.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aiming, as far as possible, brought about, characterize, characterizes, Labor unions, manual, reside, resides, residing, socialism, Society of, The Manual, union
«Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Culture
| Keywords:
manufacture, professors, wield, wielded, wields
«The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
block, excitement, inability, nervous, regimes, strain, straining, stumbling, The Spiritual, totalitarian, totalitarian state
«One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Assisi, Francis, Francis of Assisi, St. Francis, St. Francis of Assisi, St Francis, St Francis of Assisi