Simone Weil Famous Quotes
"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."
"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous."
"Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets."
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.
"Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money."
"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through"
"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty."
Simone Weil Quotations
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do."
John Stuart Mill
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
French Proverb
"I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps."
Benito Perez Galdos
"Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment."
Andre Maurois
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.
Y Yakigawa
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite
"You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle."
William Jefferson Clinton
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton