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The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. (Simone Weil)
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. View quote
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. View quote
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. View quote
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The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. View quote
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. View quote
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. View quote
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To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. View quote
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. View quote
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. View quote
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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. (Simone Weil)
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. View quote
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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. View quote
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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. View quote
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. View quote
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One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. View quote
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. View quote
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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. View quote
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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures. View quote
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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. View quote
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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. (Simone Weil)
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. View quote
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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. View quote
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. View quote
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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. View quote
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