Simone Weil Quotes About Truth
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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.
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It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
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Truth is one, but error is manifold.
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