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Quotes from On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God — Simone Weil

1909–1943 France

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"Science affirms that ..." Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

My purpose here is to denounce an idea which seems to be dangerous and false.

On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

It is not only in literature that fiction generates immorality. It does it also in life itself. For the substance of our life is almost exclusively composed of fiction.

On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

Words like virtue, nobility, honor, honesty, generosity, have become almost impossible to use or else they have acquired bastard meanings; language is no longer equipped for legitimately praising a man’s character.

On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

The surrealists have set up non-oriented thought as a model; they have chosen the total absence of value as their supreme value.

On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

Men … ask nothing better, it would seem, than to leave their destiny, their life, and all their thoughts in the hands of a few men with a gift for the exclusive manipulation of this or that technique.

On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Simone Weil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.