Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEILTo be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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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 world is God’s language to us.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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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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