The only way into truth is through ones own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. – Simone Weil
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. – Simone Weil
The only way into truth is through ones own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. – Simone Weil
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. – Simone Weil
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. – Simone Weil
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. – Simone Weil
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Virginibus Puerisque II,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881