Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in … - Simone Weil

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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

Simone Weil

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.

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