"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work." ― Simone Weil Topic(s): Work More From Simone Weil "Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life." "To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile." "Beauty always promises, but never gives anything." More In Work "The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society."― Noam Chomsky "Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property."― Ayn Rand "Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."― John Ruskin