“Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.”— Simone Weil, Human Personality, 1943Share
“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
“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”— Isabel AllendeShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“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
