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Description: Simone Weil quote: It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.

Description: Simone Weil quote: The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

Description: Simone Weil quote: I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Description: Simone Weil quote: “Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

Description: Simone Weil quote: 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.

Description: Simone Weil quote: Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

Description: Simone Weil quote: If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error. If it has recognized the fact, even for the tenth of a second, and then quickly forgotten it in order to avoid suffering, it is living in falsehood. Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood. In them, intelligence is neither a good, nor even an asset. The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Description: Simone Weil quote: At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being.

Description: Simone Weil quote: We can know only one thing about God — that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Description: Simone Weil quote: Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good

Description: Simone Weil quote: Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

Description: Simone Weil quote: The human soul has need of some solitude and privacy and also of some social life.

Description: Simone Weil quote: Love is not consolation. It is light.

Description: Simone Weil quote: The human soul has need of truth and of freedom of expression.

Description: Simone Weil quote: One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Description: Simone Weil quote: There is a reality outside the world, that is to say, outside space and time, outside man's mental universe, outside any sphere whatsoever that is accessible to human faculties. Corresponding to this reality, 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.

Description: Simone Weil quote: Conformity is an imitation of grace.

Description: Simone Weil quote: Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Description: Simone Weil quote: La culture est un instrument manié par des professeurs pour fabriquer des professeurs qui à leur tour fabriqueront des professeurs.

Description: Simone Weil quote: L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité.

Description: Simone Weil quote: Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who, when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: God is the Immanent Cause of all things, never truly transcendent from them.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis sed vitae meditatio est

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: “A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.”

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: Peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: We feel and know that we are eternal.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: This I know, that between finite and infinite there is no comparison; so that the difference between God and the greatest and most excellent created thing is no less than the difference between God and the least created thing.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious. And so they think they are doing something wonderful, and reaching the pinnacle of learning, when they are clever enough to bestow manifold praise on such human nature, as is nowhere to be found, and to make verbal attacks on that which, in fact, exists. For they conceive of men, not as they are, but as they themselves would like them to be.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: Meum institutum non est verborum significationem sed rerum naturam explicare

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: Veritas norma sui et falsi est.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: My purpose is to explain, not the meaning of words, but the nature of things.