“Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.”— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947Share
“The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.”— Simone WeilShare
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”— Simone WeilShare
“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”— Albert CamusShare
“From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.”— Benjamin FranklinShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.”— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowShare
“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our…”— Nelson MandelaShare
“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”— Leo TolstoyShare
