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Simone Weil

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


— Simone Weil


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


— Simone Weil


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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.


— Simone Weil


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


— Simone Weil


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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.


— Simone Weil


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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.


— Simone Weil


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The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.


— Simone Weil


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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.


— Simone Weil


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There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.


— Simone Weil


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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.


— Simone Weil


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Nor does this constitute a delimitation of God's omnipotence if it is not that God could not create a perfect world but that the act which we refer towards by saying "create" in its very essence implies the impossibility of perfection. At this time Simone Weil was a Marxist pacifist and trade unionist. When Simone Weil returned to France her political friends in France dismissed her fears thinking Germany would continue to be controlled by the centrists or those to the left.

She taught intermittently throughout the 1930s taking several breaks due to poor health and to devote herself to political activism work that would see her assisting in the trade union movement taking the side of the left in the Spanish Civil War and spending more than a year working as a labourer mostly in auto factories so Simone Weil could better understand the working class. Weil wrote throughout her life though most of her writings did not attract much attention until after her death. Simone Weil (French: [simɔn vɛj]; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher Christian mystic and social activist.

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