Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
SIMONE WEILThere is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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