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• One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

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  Degrees, Movement, Charity

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.41, Routledge

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• Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

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  Men, Europe, People

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• To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

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  Power

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.70, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

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  War, Preparation, Important

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.16, Routledge

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• Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

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  Self, Iron, Hatred

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.40, Routledge

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• Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

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  Men, Giving, Debt

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.9, Psychology Press

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• All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

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  Atheist, Acceptance, Order

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• One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

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  Life, Happiness, Play

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.124, Psychology Press

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• No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

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  Inspirational, Desire, Movement

  Simone Weil (1970). “First and last notebooks”

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• Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

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  Love Is, Abdication, Command

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

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• What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

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  Innocence, Ifs

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.136, Psychology Press

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• The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

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  Beautiful, Proof, Incarnation

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.440, Routledge

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• Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

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  Past, Entering, Eternity

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.37, Psychology Press

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• Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

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  Science, Voiceless, Scientist

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "Reflections on quantum theory," p. 57, 1968.

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• The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

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  Thinking, Branches, Speed

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.13, Routledge

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• Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

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  Beauty, Pretty Girl, Giving

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.29, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

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  Errors, Perspective, Sometimes

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.164, Routledge

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• A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.

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  Loss, Light, Suggestions

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.172, Psychology Press

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• One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.

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  Winning, Justice, Sides

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• Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

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  Army, Sovereign, States

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• The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

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  Opposites, Soul, Virtue

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.102, Psychology Press

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• We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

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  Greek, Matter, Firsts

  Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

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• The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

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  Beast, Imitation, Idolatry

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.164, Psychology Press

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• The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

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  Giving, Evolution, Oppression

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.13, Routledge

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