Simone Weil Quotes About Virtue
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We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
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The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.
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