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• The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

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  Rights, Relation, Duty

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.2, Routledge

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• ...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

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  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.79, Routledge

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• It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.

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  Spiritual, Men, Order

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

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  Art, Works Of Art

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.206, Routledge

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• Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

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  Order, Causes

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.563, Routledge

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• What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

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  Oppression, Appearance, Economics

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.59, Routledge

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• Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

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  Men, Two, Deny

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.151, Routledge

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• The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

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  Lying, Rights, Two

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.86, Psychology Press

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• Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

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  Live In The Moment, Saint, Today

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.28, Routledge

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• The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

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  Desire, Treasure, Misers

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.15, Psychology Press

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• Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.

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  Religious, Heart, Son

  "Letter to a Priest". Book by Simone Weil, section 8, 1951.

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• A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

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  Pharisees, Beast, Obedience

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.169, Psychology Press

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• Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

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  Peace, Giving, Doe

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• Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

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  Crush, Truth, Men

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

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• Renunciation is submission to time.

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  Submission, Renunciation

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.221, Routledge

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• Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

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  Life, Dominion, Force

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

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• I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

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  Christian, Civilization, Aggravation

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• It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

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  Suffering, Chance, Hunger

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.5, Routledge

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• As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

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  Encouragement, Punishment, Killers

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.174, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

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  Heart, Evil, Teeth

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.59, Routledge

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• Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

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  Appreciate, Flavor, Form

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

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• There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

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  Effort, Salvation, Easiness

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• The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

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  Doctors, Saint, Needs

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.29, Routledge

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• Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

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  Firsts, Indirect, Method

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.117, Psychology Press

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• Distance is the soul of beauty.

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  Distance, Soul

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.615, Routledge

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