Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
Simone Weil quote Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
Simone Weil quote The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Simone Weil quote The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone Weil quote The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
Simone Weil quote We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Simone Weil quote Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Simone Weil quote 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.
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