Quotes by Weil, Simone

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we >>

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifesta >>

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. >>

Quotations about Truth

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish a >>

Seek and you will find. >>

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. >>

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone