In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. - Simone Weil Quotes
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. Simone Weil
 French Philosopher

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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. - Simone Weil Quotes

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

 French Philosopher
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. - 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.

Simone Weil

 Suffering
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either - Simone Weil Quotes

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Simone Weil

 Appetite Power
It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature. - Simone Weil Quotes

It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Simone Weil

 Liberty Man
Nothing is less instructive than a machine. - Simone Weil Quotes

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Simone Weil

 French Philosopher
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. - Simone Weil Quotes

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Simone Weil

 French Philosopher
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. - Simone Weil Quotes

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Simone Weil

 French Philosopher History
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life - Simone Weil Quotes

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life

Simone Weil

 Fiction
Humility is attentive patience. - Simone Weil Quotes

Humility is attentive patience.

Simone Weil

 French Philosopher Humility
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. - Simone Weil Quotes

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

Simone Weil

 Art French Philosopher
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