Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
— Simone Weil
Famous Quotes
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
The prospects of revolution seem therefore quite restricted. For can a revolution avoid war? It is, however, on this feeble chance that we must stake everything or abandon all hope. An advanced country will not encounter, in the case of revolution, the difficulties which in backward Russia served as a base for the barbarous regime of Stalin. But a war of any scope will give rise to others as formidable.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science. And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
The number 2 thought of by one man cannot be added to the number 2 thought of by another man so as to make up the number 4.