The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone Weil
More from: Simone Weil
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. -
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can. -
Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences. -
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. -
I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.
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.