Simone Weil Quotes About Reality
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
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The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.
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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
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One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.
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Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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