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The miser deprives himself of...

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

Simone Weil 469 quotes

All the tragedies which we ca...

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

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The difference between more o...

The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

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In this world, only those peo...

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

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It is precisely those artists...

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

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One should identify oneself w...

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

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Compassion directed to onesel...

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

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The joy of learning is as ind...

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

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Concern for the symbol has co...

Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

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Whoever is uprooted himself u...

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

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Evil is neither suffering nor...

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.

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Someone who does not see a pa...

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

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The contradictions the mind c...

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

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It is only by entering the tr...

It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.

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Our science is like a store f...

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

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In solitude we are in the pre...

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

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The real sin of idolatry is a...

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

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Contemplating an object fixed...

Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

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The real stumbling-block of t...

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

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The whole evolution of presen...

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

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