I would prefer obviously that they hadn't gotten injured, but we're a pretty deep team, and the othe...
LEO WEIL She's had to pick up her communication and become a more vocal leader.
LEO WEIL There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justi...
SIMONE WEIL The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
SIMONE WEIL The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
SIMONE WEIL More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact ...
SIMONE WEIL For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends ar...
SIMONE WEIL All sins are attempts to fill voids.
SIMONE WEIL To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
SIMONE WEIL Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
SIMONE WEIL I can, therefore I am.
SIMONE WEIL Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed wh...
SIMONE WEIL There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of...
SIMONE WEIL If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human b...
ANDREW WEIL A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pl...
SIMONE WEIL Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to kno...
SIMONE WEIL A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
SIMONE WEIL Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrs...
SIMONE WEIL It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had...
CYNTHIA WEIL Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And o...
SIMONE WEIL The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of ind...
SIMONE WEIL To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
SIMONE WEIL Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the se...
SIMONE WEIL The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sw...
ANDREW WEIL To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing i...
SIMONE WEIL Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great advers...
SIMONE WEIL A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its opti...
SIMONE WEIL What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to li...
SIMONE WEIL Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. ...
SIMONE WEIL The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
SIMONE WEIL In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below begg...
SIMONE WEIL Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
SIMONE WEIL In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
SIMONE WEIL Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both....
SIMONE WEIL We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an ima...
SIMONE WEIL In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been a...
SIMONE WEIL Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train ma...
SIMONE WEIL Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
SIMONE WEIL Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
SIMONE WEIL We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am sufferi...
SIMONE WEIL Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.
SHARON WEIL When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door...
SIMONE WEIL A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being d...
SIMONE WEIL As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to t...
SIMONE WEIL Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.
SHARON WEIL Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case...
SIMONE WEIL To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to...
SIMONE WEIL Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
SIMONE WEIL There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying ...
SIMONE WEIL Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
SIMONE WEIL There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the...
SIMONE WEIL I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEIL The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their i...
SIMONE WEIL The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
SIMONE WEIL Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
SIMONE WEIL The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...
SIMONE WEIL It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time...
SIMONE WEIL To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all st...
SIMONE WEIL When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o...
SIMONE WEIL A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
SIMONE WEIL An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEIL Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is th...
SIMONE WEIL If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy mo...
SIMONE WEIL Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
SIMONE WEIL I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in ...
SIMONE WEIL The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more ...
SIMONE WEIL The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for s...
SIMONE WEIL Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manuf...
SIMONE WEIL The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons o...
SIMONE WEIL It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a ...
SIMONE WEIL Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the princi...
SIMONE WEIL At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is some...
SIMONE WEIL Under the name of truth I also included beauty, virtue, and every kind of goodness, so that for me i...
SIMONE WEIL Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
SIMONE WEIL Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of p...
SIMONE WEIL The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
SIMONE WEIL A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
SIMONE WEIL Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in w...
SIMONE WEIL We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
SIMONE WEIL Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
SIMONE WEIL A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates...
SIMONE WEIL When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due t...
SIMONE WEIL When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outsid...
SIMONE WEIL Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEIL Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
SIMONE WEIL Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is deta...
SIMONE WEIL If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ce...
SIMONE WEIL With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorro...
SIMONE WEIL Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them thei...
SIMONE WEIL One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
SIMONE WEIL Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
SIMONE WEIL A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is ple...
SIMONE WEIL Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to ...
SIMONE WEIL We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits -- and we bow our heads. W...
SIMONE WEIL In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produce...
SIMONE WEIL Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them the...
SIMONE WEIL The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost ...
SIMONE WEIL To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
SIMONE WEIL In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in bloss...
SIMONE WEIL The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occas...
SIMONE WEIL Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
SIMONE WEIL Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary go...
SIMONE WEIL Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life
SIMONE WEIL The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as ...
SIMONE WEIL To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded...
SIMONE WEIL As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, ...
ANDREW WEIL You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep...
ANDREW WEIL Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to kno...
SIMONE WEIL The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, whe...
SIMONE WEIL The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me.
ANDREW WEIL The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a sta...
SIMONE WEIL American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees...
ANDREW WEIL We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and re...
CYNTHIA WEIL Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our co...
ANDREW WEIL The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate d...
ANDREW WEIL Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or t...
ANDREW WEIL We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even ...
ANDREW WEIL As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If t...
ANDREW WEIL Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life...
ANDREW WEIL Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.
ANDREW WEIL My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of ...
ANDREW WEIL In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the...
ANDREW WEIL Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic...
ANDREW WEIL Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These peo...
ANDREW WEIL We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that ...
ANDREW WEIL A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have re...
ANDREW WEIL If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal heal...
ANDREW WEIL There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector...
ANDREW WEIL The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' s...
ANDREW WEIL Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
ANDREW WEIL Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim ...
ANDREW WEIL Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtuall...
ANDREW WEIL Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/...
ANDREW WEIL Millions of Americans today are taking dietary supplements, practicing yoga and integrating other na...
ANDREW WEIL Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much...
ANDREW WEIL It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away...
ANDREW WEIL Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, ...
SIMONE WEIL Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
SIMONE WEIL What is crucial is there be laws.
ANDRE WEIL Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
ANDRE WEIL Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in...
ANDRE WEIL God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
ANDRE WEIL First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate...
ANDRE WEIL Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works f...
ANDREW WEIL By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by p...
ANDREW WEIL You've got to experiment to figure out what works.
ANDREW WEIL Is your energy good and mind clear? Everybody is different, so I don't really think there are genera...
ANDREW WEIL The longer you've been exposed to pro-inflammatory pressures, the more damage can accumulate.
ANDREW WEIL I have always recommended natural beauty products. I'm concerned about the artificial ingredients in...
ANDREW WEIL Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being
ANDREW WEIL The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mech...
ANDREW WEIL Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
ANDREW WEIL The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter n...
CYNTHIA WEIL The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weig...
ANDREW WEIL Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me pick...
ANDREW WEIL Humility is attentive patience.
SIMONE WEIL To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shorteni...
ANDREW WEIL It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics ...
SIMONE WEIL I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-manag...
ANDREW WEIL As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least t...
SIMONE WEIL If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need t...
ANDREW WEIL Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous break...
CYNTHIA WEIL I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which...
SIMONE WEIL Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue ...
ANDREW WEIL Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in man...
ANDREW WEIL Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. ...
ANDREW WEIL Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, ...
SIMONE WEIL What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to li...
SIMONE WEIL Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known a...
ANDREW WEIL We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
CYNTHIA WEIL The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...
SIMONE WEIL While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so ne...
ANDREW WEIL Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed w...
SIMONE WEIL The real stumbling-block of totalitarian r?gimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of tho...
SIMONE WEIL Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real ne...
SIMONE WEIL Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.
SIMONE WEIL I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's ...
ANDREW WEIL Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
SIMONE WEIL (We had) the author of 'Holes,' Louis Sachar, go to the Staples Center and had 18,000 to 20,000 stud...
DAVID WEIL Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.
CYNTHIA WEIL What we're trying to do and focus on is really establish Walden as a Good Housekeeping Seal of Appro...
DAVID WEIL The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking the...
SIMONE WEIL It's another one of those more serious contraction phases that are followed by buying on the dip. I ...
ULRIC WEIL My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.
CYNTHIA WEIL When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all ...
ANDREW WEIL This is a vote to start negotiations. This is not a vote to withdraw. It merely starts the process. ...
GORDON WEIL The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his l...
SIMONE WEIL Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced aga...
ANDREW WEIL You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process...
CYNTHIA WEIL I was never conscious of any distractions other than hearing an incredible Goffin and King lyric and...
CYNTHIA WEIL We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.
CYNTHIA WEIL Currency is overshadowing the multinationals, the tech multinationals, whether it's Cisco Systems or...
ULRIC WEIL We were making these nice Western shirts, and I needed something different to justify the additional...
JACK WEIL Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may ...
ANDREW WEIL The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own ...
ANDREW WEIL When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.
SIMONE WEIL The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.
SIMONE WEIL Emotions have their own movement. They move like waves: huge tsunami waves, choppy rapids, or long s...
SHARON WEIL When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself. <...
SHARON WEIL Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are.
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