Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Simone Weil


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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors.

Simone Weil


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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil


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If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Simone Weil


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Humility is attentive patience.

Simone Weil


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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Simone Weil


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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

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

Simone Weil


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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Simone Weil


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The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Simone Weil


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