Simone Weil Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.”

“What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.”

“Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.”

“One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.”

“It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.”

“Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.”

“To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.”

“In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.”

“Nothing is less instructive than a machine.”