Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
SIMONE WEILJoy is being fully aware of reality.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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