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«Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
give rise, inexorable, invincible, revolt, submission
«I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Catholic, degraded, European, European civilization, Greek, nourished, renounce
«The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
impulsiveness, nearly, sufferer, sufferers, warmth
«When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.»
«The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conceiving, contemplating, fixedly, insolubility, insoluble, patiently, tirelessly
«The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
activities, interpretation, royal, royal road, unconscious mind
«We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits -- and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.»
«Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
bringing, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, exiled, exiles, freely, inflicted, infliction, the commission, The Suffering
«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.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
intoxicate, intoxicates, pitiless, victims
«A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
deceived, doctrines, indispensable, serves
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