Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
SIMONE WEILLove is not consolation, it is light.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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