“Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.” HumansWellsLooksValuesSacrificeFiguresBalancePaperBudgetsHuman LifeSheetsBourgeoisAccountingBalance Sheets Author:Simone Weil
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.” WritingHumansLooksStillsUseProblemRealizingFiguresSpeechSymbolsAliensHuman LifeStaringComplexityHauntingUneasyFigures Of SpeechComplexity Of Human Book:The Educated Imagination Source: The Educated Imagination