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Simone Weil Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality
  • The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

    Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.156, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

    Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

    "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 169, 1968.

Simone Weil

  • Born: February 3, 1909
  • Died: August 24, 1943
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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