Simone Weil: Frasi in inglese (pagina 10)

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“I too have a growing inner certainty that there is a deposit of pure gold in me which ought to be passed on. The trouble is that I am more and more convinced by my experience and observation of my contemporaries that there is no one to receive it.
It's a dense mass. What gets added to it is of a piece with the rest. As the mass grows it becomes more and more dense. I can't parcel it out into little pieces.”

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Letter from Simone Weil to her parents, August 1943, five weeks before her death, quoted in introduction, p. 1
Lectures on Philosophy (1959)

“The might which kills outright is an elementary and coarse form of might. How much more varied in its devices; how much more astonishing in its effects is that other which does not kill; or which delays killing.”

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La force qui tue est une forme sommaire, grossière de la force. Combien plus variée en ses procédés, combien plus surprenante en ses effets, est l'autre force, celle qui ne tue pas; c'est-à-dire celle qui ne tue pas encore.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 155
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)

“The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.”

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“The responsibility of writers,” p. 167
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

“I have sometimes told myself that if only there were a notice on church doors forbidding entry to anyone with an income above a certain figure, and a low one, I would be converted at once.”

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Letter to Georges Bernanos (1938), in Seventy Letters, as translated by Richard Rees (Wipf and Stock: 1965), p. 105

“If all men, by the act of being born, are destined to suffer violence, that is a truth to which the empire of circumstances closes their minds.”

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Si tous sont destinés en naissant à souffrir la violence, c'est là une vérité à laquelle l'empire des circonstances ferme les esprits des hommes.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 163
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)

“Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad, the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.”

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Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 55

“The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.”

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Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260

“It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.”

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Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 57

“The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul — like pincers to catch hold of God.”

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Simone Weil libro L'ombra e la grazia

Origine: Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 92 (1972 edition)

“I feel ceaselessly and increasingly torn, both in my intelligence and in the depth of my heart, by my inability to conceive simultaneously and in truth of the affliction of humans, the perfection of God, and the relation between the two.”

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“The key to a Christian conception of studies is the realization that prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable toward God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.”

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"Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God"
Waiting on God (1950)

“The thought of being under absolute compulsion, the plaything of another, is unendurable for a human being. Hence, if every way of escape from the constraint is taken from him, there is nothing left for him to do but to persuade himself that he does the things he is forced to do willingly, that is to say, to substitute devotion for obedience.”

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Simone Weil libro L'ombra e la grazia

… It is by this twist that slavery debases the soul: this devotion is in fact based on a lie, since the reasons for it cannot bear investigation. … Moreover, the master is deceived too by the fallacy of devotion.
Origine: Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 142 (1972 edition)

“The first thing that we know about ourselves is our imperfection.
This is what Descartes meant when he said: 'I know God before I know myself.'”

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The only mark of God in us is that we feel that we are not God.

p. 90
Lectures on Philosophy (1959)