Simone Weil quotes
"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."
"To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself."
"All sins are attempts to fill voids."
"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors."
"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listeni"
"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and"
"Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be cou"
"Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to"
"Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have"
