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Simone Weil

Simone Weil föddes den 3 Februar 1909 och dog den 24 August 1943 - in the French Resistance during World War II.
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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

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.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Den intelligente som är stolt över sin intelligens liknar fången som är stolt över sin stora cell.

Intelligence

Den intelligenta som är stolt över sin intelligens liknar fången som är stolt över sin stora cell.

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