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Simone Weil Quotes
«Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.»
«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 more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.»
«Obvious and inexorable oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to revolt but to submission.»
«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»
«Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches»
«When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,»
«The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
alcoholism, hitherto, tuberculosis, virulent
