Quote by Simone Weil
Nothing is less instructive than a machine. - Simone Weil

Nothing is less instructive than a machine. – Simone Weil

Other quotes by Simone Weil

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

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History
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. – Simone Weil

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work
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. – Simone Weil

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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. – Karel Capek

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artists hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. – Frank Lloyd Wright

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. – Thomas Carlyle

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. – Ernst Fischer

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For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. – Vladimir Kramnik

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Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when youre a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately its gone. – Andrea Corr

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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. – William Blake

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When youre walking down the street, or youre at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what theyre wearing – into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves. – Mary-Kate Olsen

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