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“We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.”

Quote by Simone Weil

Book:The Notebooks of Simone Weil

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The Notebooks of Simone Weil

This book compiles the notebooks of Simone Weil, a profound thinker whose work spans philosophy, theology, and social activism. Weil's notebooks contain her thoughts on various subjects, including ethics, politics, and metaphysics, offering a unique glimpse into her intellectual development and her search for truth. more

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Simone Weil was a French philosopher, social activist, and writer. Born on February 3, 1909, and died on August 24, 1943, Weil is known for her profound philosophical thinking and her passionate commitment to social justice. Her works have had a significant impact on later philosophers and social thinkers. more

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“prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.”

Heart Soul Prayer Attention Quality Capable Warmth Orientation Warmth Of Heart

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.”

Should Looks May Beauty Crime Essence Vices Depravity

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.”

Whole Civilization Bureaucracy Enslavement Specialization Coordinates

Author:Simone Weil

“The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.”

Giving Whole Form Evolution Capitalism Regard Various Oppression Bureaucracy Autonomy Present Day

Book:Oppression and Liberty

Source: Oppression and Liberty

“The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.”

Thinking Humans Activity Speed Branches Bureaucracy Human Activity

Book:Oppression and Liberty

Source: Oppression and Liberty

“The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.”

Real Morality Civilization Intellectual Surface Decadence

Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.”

Men Trying Done Hurt Justice Compassion Violence Seeing Cry Harm Mistaken Infallible Being Done Being Hurt

Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“Compassion directed to oneself is humility.”

Compassion Humility Oneself

Book:First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

“The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.”

Form Compassion Hungry Contemplation Feeding

Author:Simone Weil

“The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.”

Mind Real Reality Tests Come Up Contradiction Imaginary Criteria

Author:Simone Weil