The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
From Simone Weil
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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.
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
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