Simone Weil Quotes


We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. George Sand Life 107
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. George Sand Charity 90
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. George Sand beauty 87
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand Poetry 86
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below? George Sand Ambition 80
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. George Sand Faith 75
There is only one happiness is life: to love and be loved. George Sand Life 75
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. George Sand Authors 75
The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine George Sand Passion 74
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than selfrespect George Sand Selfishness 74
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? George Sand Religion 72
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. George Sand age 71
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand Happy 67
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand Kindness 66
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. George Sand Women 65
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand Work 65
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. George Sand Happy 64
No religion can be built on force. George Sand Religion 52
Every historian discloses a new horizon. George Sand Uncategorized 51
Where love is absent, there can be no woman. George Sand Women 49
It is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary. George Sand Beautiful 47
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. George Sand Revolution 46
There is one happiness in life. Love and be loved. George Sand Life 44
No human creature can give orders to love. George Sand Uncategorized 44
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. George Sand Farming 42
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. George Sand Uncategorized 42
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. George Sand Uncategorized 40
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. George Sand Uncategorized 39
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. George Sand Experience 38
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. George Sand Nature 37
God abandons only those who abandon themselves and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains. George Sand Sorrow 37
You can bind my body tie my hands govern my actions you are the strongest and society adds to your power but with my will sir you can do nothing. George Sand Politics 34
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. George Sand Life 33
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older one climbs with surprising strides. George Sand Age 33
One changes from day to day, and… after a few years have passed one has completely altered. George Sand Uncategorized 33
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. George Sand Uncategorized 28

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