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Simone Weil: top 200 quotes
200 definitions
Art (n.) is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: To construct and to refrain from destruction.
Art (n.) has no immediate future on account of the fact that all art is collective and collective life is no more.
Love (n.) is not consolation, it is light.
Love (n.) is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
Love (n.) is to feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.
Death (n.) is an instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
Morality (n.) is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.
Culture (n.) is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
Progress (n.) is poison, for nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin.
Justice (n.) consists in seeing that no harm is done to men.
Justice (n.) is behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
Justice (n.) is something quite different from what we read in him, for every being cries out silently to be read differently.
Justice (n.) is, if repressive, the one and only thing in modern society more hideous than crime.
Imagination (n.) is that which, along with fiction, make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Imagination (n.) is a social fabric through which the influence of real needs, compulsions, interests and materials are rendered indirect.
Imagination (n.) is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history while the influence of real needs, real interests and real materials remains indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Imagination (n.) is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history.
Imagination (n.) is, together with fiction, responsible for three quarters of our real life.
Mathematics (n.) is as opaque to our intelligence as force is to our will.
Mathematics (n.) is that alone which is capable of making us feel the limits of our intelligence because in mathematics alone we have all the data and yet we don't understand, and thus are left coming back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness.