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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Atheism
Simone Weil

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Arts and Artists
Simone Weil

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Beauty
Simone Weil

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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Charity
Simone Weil

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Life and Living
Simone Weil

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Pain
Simone Weil

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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
Nations
Simone Weil

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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Churches
Simone Weil

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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Purity
Simone Weil

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One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
Right and Rightness
Simone Weil

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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Oppression
Simone Weil

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Genius
Simone Weil

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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Soul
Simone Weil

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Simone Weil

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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Reality
Simone Weil

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Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Impossibility
Weiler

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Friends and Friendship
Len Wein

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The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
Universe
Steven Weinberg

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The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
Right and Rightness
Harry Weinberger

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Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
Dreams
Lord Weinstock

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.
Failure
Gerald. N. Weiskott

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Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity.
Irony
John Weiss

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Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Creation
Geri Weitzman

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Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
Miracles
Chaim. Weizmann

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The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
Past
John Welch

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun