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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Simone Weil
Truth, Dwelling, Long
Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Simone Weil
Truth, Lying, People

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil
Crush, Truth, Men
Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

Simone Weil
Truth, Errors, Truth Is
Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.66, Routledge

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

Simone Weil
Truth, Desire, Impossible
Simone Weil (1970). “First and last notebooks”

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