True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
SIMONE WEILGrace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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