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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #first #force #intoxicates #man

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. ↗

— Simone Weil

#becoming #cannot #catholic #centuries #christian

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. ↗

— Simone Weil

#her #humiliations #i #inflicted #more

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. ↗

— Simone Weil

#civilized #destroy #enslave #europe #european

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#because #compulsions #conscious #crowd #dynamic

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. ↗

— Simone Weil

#church #considered #degenerate #inevitably #into

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

— Simone Weil

#humility #intellectual #less #more #nor

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#brush #canvas #palette #producing #recording

The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal. ↗