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• In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

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  Truth, Lying, People

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

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  Science, Intellectual, Principles

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.156, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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• 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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• The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

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  Dangerous, Quantity, Lure

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.6, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

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  Expression, Personality, Privilege

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.74, Routledge

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• 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.

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  Teamwork, Taken, Sorrow

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.21, Routledge

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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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• 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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• 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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