Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. – Simone Weil
When a mans life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other mens actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him. – Simone Weil
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. – Simone Weil
What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil
The African Americans relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allens African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates