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Simone Weil Quotes
«The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
afflicted, certainty, cut out, forgets, impotence, listened, occasionally, perceives, sink
«The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
contemporary, spirituality, The Contemporary
«A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
beat, captive, fainting, faints, falsehood, hates, The Captive, The Wall, wall
«An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aspects, atheist, concentrated, impersonal
«A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.»