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Simone Weil (/veɪ/; French: [simɔn vɛj] ( listen); 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist.

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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

Absolute, Heart, Longing, World

The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

Prayer, Father, Humanity

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.

Balance, Figures, Francs, Human, Looks, Sacrifice

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

Agony, Crucifixion, Distance, Infinite, Love Is, Supreme

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

Beautiful, Boring, Evil, Reality

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

Children, Creating, Education, Individuals, Motives, Object

The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

Children, Country, Love, Native, Totality, Universe

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.

Affliction, Compassion, Difficult, Listening, Nursing

Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc. , the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light [-] It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.

Religious, Heart, Son, Church, Man

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

Instruments, Machines, Power, Secret, Taken

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Easier, Force, Fragility, Ideas, Kill, Stories

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.

Perfection, Levels, Imagine, Higher, Level

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

Civilization, Colonialism, Cruelty, Expect, Opportunity, Sees

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

Bread, Eternity, Light, Needs, Workers

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

Away, Bears, Innocent, Throw, Weight

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

Desire, Miser, Misers, Treasure

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Carpe Diem, Life, Make, Real, Three

There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

Closer, Exercise, Humility, Nothing, Pride

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

Centuries, Europe, Men, People, Recognized, State

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

Danger, Trembling, Existence, Thing, Love

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