“Our political universe is peopled exclusively by myths and monsters; all it contains is absolutes and abstract entities.”— Simone Weil, The Power of Words, 1937Share
“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
“It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?”— EpictetusShare
“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”— EpictetusShare
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”— William ShakespeareShare
“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”— Marcus AureliusShare
