“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”— Simone Weil, The Pre-War Notebook, in First and Last Notebooks, 1970Share
“The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.”— Simone WeilShare
“Every atheist is an idolater — unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect.”— Simone WeilShare
“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”— EpictetusShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
