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Nothing Power philosopher Activist Religion

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

- Simone Weil

Other quotes by Simone Weil

Time

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

- Simone Weil

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

- Simone Weil

Being

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

- Simone Weil

Value Men Nothing Life People

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.

- Simone Weil

Work

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

- Simone Weil

Destruction Past

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

- Simone Weil

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