The future is made of the same stuff as the present. – Simone Weil
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. – Simone Weil
The future is made of the same stuff as the present. – Simone Weil
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. – Simone Weil
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. – Simone Weil
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. – Simone Weil
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. – Thomas Babington Macaulay