The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Quotes by Simone Weil
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make it.
Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
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 much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

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