Simone Weil quotes and words of wisdom

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."
Found in the topic Life.

"If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."
Found in the topic Sin.

"A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it."
Found in the topic Art.

"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
Found in the topic Attain.

"The future is made up of the same stuff as the present."
Found in the topic Future.

"What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict."
Found in the topic Cause.

Interesting Quotes

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.Dick Brandon

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.A. A. Milne - English juvenile author (1882 - 1956)