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“ ”Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors.
About Simone Weil
Simone Adolphine Weil (3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French social and religious philosopher, and Christian mystic. Politically active, during the Spanish Civil War she joined the Anarchist military unit known as the Durruti Column, and took part in the French Resistance during World War II. She was the sister of mathematician André Weil, with whom she shared an interest in ancient Greek and Indian thought.
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Additional quotes by Simone Weil
There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is a miracle. Nearly all those who believe they have this capacity do not. Warmth, movements of the heart, and pity are not sufficient.