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"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."

Simone Weil on Great

More quotes about Great

  • "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

    Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

  • "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

    Albert Einstein on Great

  • "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

    William Shakespeare on Great

  • "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

    Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

  • "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

    Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Simone Weil

  • "We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."

  • "To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."

  • "Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

  • "Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."

  • "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."

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