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Simone Weil Quotes
«Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.»
«When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.»
«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.»
«Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
domain, Real Genius, supernatural, supernatural virtue
«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.»
«A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it»
«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.»
«Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Art,
Work
| Keywords:
consumed, district, districts, fabrication, The District, wines
