Simone Weil Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Simone Weil quotes and sayings page 5 (philosopher). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 79 we have.
“A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.”
“The future is made of the same stuff as the present.”
“To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.”
“The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.”
“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”
“Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.”
“Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.”
“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
“Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.”
“The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.”
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