atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone Weil quote Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil quote Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil quote Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
Simone Weil quote Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Simone Weil quote Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil quote The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Simone Weil quote The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
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