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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Simone Weil
Time, Past, Crime
Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.48, Routledge

It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God. This refusal does not presuppose any belief. It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind: that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary, are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

Simone Weil
Real, Believe, Past

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Simone Weil
Past, Europe, Civilization
Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

Simone Weil
Past, Entering, Eternity
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.37, Psychology Press

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.

Simone Weil
Science, Past, Discovery
Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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