Wisdom Quotes · Page 39

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“Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.”

— Simone Weil

“If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error.”

— Simone Weil

“Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.”

— Simone Weil

“A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.”

— Simone Weil

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.”

— Simone Weil

“Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).”

— Simone Weil

“Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.”

— Simone Weil

“Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.”

— Simone Weil

“We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.”

— Simone Weil

“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”

— Simone Weil

“Men are unequal in all their relations with the things of this world, without exception.”

— Simone Weil

“And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Iago's soliloquy—the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Poor little foal of an oppressèd race! I love the languid patience of thy face.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring.”

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever—unread.”

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?”

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.”

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man.”

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them.”

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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