"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
― Simone Weil
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From Simone Weil
- "To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
- "A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
- "In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention."
More In Beauty
- "I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren’t exposed to creative music."― Charlie Haden
- "I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings."― Ella R. Bloor
- "Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."― Simone Weil