"الحرية تظلّ سجناً طالما لا يزال هناك شخص مقيّد بالسلاسل على هذه الأرض. عندما كنت حراً، لم أستطع التوقف عن التفكير في روسيا وعبيدها جميعهم."
— كامو. العادلون
“The good seems to us as a nothingness, since there is no thing that is good. But this nothingness is not unreal. Compared with it everything in existence is unreal.”
— Simone Weil. Love in the Void
“ALWAYS, BEYOND the particular object whatever it may be, we have to fix our will on the void, to will the void. For the good which we can neither picture nor define is a void for us. But this void is fuller than all fullnesses.”
— Simone Weil. Love in the Void
“THE EXTINCTION OF DESIRE (Buddhism)-or detachment-or amor fati-or desire for the absolute good-these all amount to the same: to empty desire, finality of all content, to desire in the void, to desire without any wishes.”
— Simone Weil. Love in the Void
“Whoever endures a moment of the void either receives the supernatural bread or falls. It is a terrible risk but one that must be run, even during the instant when hope fails. But we must not throw ourselves into it.”
— Simone Weil. Love in the Void
“MAN ONLY ESCAPES from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation, of pure intuition, of mental void, of acceptance of the moral void. It is through such instants that he is capable of the supernatural.”
“The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.”
— Simone Weil. Love in the Void
“We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them. We cannot discover them by our own powers, and if we set out to seek for them we will find in their place counterfeits of which we will be unable to discern the falsity.”
"أبدا لم يكن هناك إنسان أعلى. عاريين رأيت كلا من الإنسان العظيم والإنسان الحقير:
متشابهين جدا أراهما. والحق أقول لكم، حتى أعظم الناس قد بدا لي - مفرطا في الإنسانية!"
— نيتشه. هكذا تكلم زرادشت
"أما من كان مسكونا بشيطان فإنني أهمس له بهذه الكلمة: "أولى بك وأجدر أن ترعى نموّ شيطانك! فأمامك أنت أيضا ما تزال هناك بعد طريق إلى العظمة""
— نيتشه. هكذا تكلم زرادشت