Inspiring Quotes by Simone Weil - Page 2

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"To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny"

"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile"

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul"

"The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes"

"Nothing is less instructive than a machine"

"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work"

"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought"

"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat"

"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission"

"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication"

"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else"

"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances"

"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her"

"I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded"

"Humility is attentive patience"

"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace"

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