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«There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.»
«The future is made of the same stuff as the present»
«God gives himself to men as powerful or as perfect - it is for them to choose»
«I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.»
«I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.»
«Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?»
«The role of the intelligence -that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
affirms, denies, formulate, formulated, formulates, formulating
«Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.»
«To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.»
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