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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.

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

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

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An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it — neither higher nor lower.

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Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.

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