| 24215 | We call experience 'objective' when it seems necessary [Weil] |
| 24189 | The criterion of the real is contradictions [Weil] |
| 24208 | Bodies classify things prior to thought (such as chicks knowing what hits of the egg to peck) [Weil] |
| 24194 | Wanting new discoveries blocks good thinking about what has been discovered [Weil] |
| 24195 | Don't reject opinions; arrange them all in a hierarchy [Weil] |
| 24209 | Senses are unaware of each other, and give isolated information [Weil] |
| 24211 | Associations are not lawlike, because we make arbitrary choice of which representation matters [Weil] |
| 24214 | Pragmatists are right that science is action on nature - but it must be methodical [Weil] |
| 24213 | Explanations always concern how one thing changes into another [Weil] |
| 24210 | Abstraction is just the character of generalisation [Weil] |
| 24212 | We don't infer the straight from the twisted, because judging the twisted needs the straight [Weil] |
| 24207 | Observing oneself in the present is impossible, and oneself in the past may be wrong [Weil] |
| 24182 | We must be obedient, and love necessity [Weil] |
| 24177 | Higher emotions have less energy, and actions may need the lower emotions [Weil] |
| 24184 | What matters about an action is not its aim, but the origin of its compulsion [Weil] |
| 24198 | Perfect works of art seem to be essentially anonymous [Weil] |
| 24216 | Everyone is devoted to morality, if they don't have to implement it [Weil] |
| 24191 | We want our values to be eternal [Weil] |
| 24176 | A person's activities have value when they receive full attention [Cochrane] |
| 24197 | Power and money are supreme means, thus blinding people to ends [Weil] |
| 24181 | We need love to have a good death [Weil] |
| 24179 | We should never desire the immortality of the people we love [Weil] |
| 24193 | If we focus on the good, our whole soul is drawn towards it [Weil] |
| 24196 | Loving others as ourselves implies varied love, and varied suffering [Weil] |
| 24183 | We should only perform the good actions which we can't help doing [Weil] |
| 24185 | Friendship is a virtue, not a state we should dream of [Weil] |
| 24219 | My neighbour's pleasure can't be an end for me [Weil] |
| 24188 | It is absurd to say that evil proves life is worthless. If it were, why would evil matter? [Weil] |
| 24205 | Monotony is beautiful as a reflection of eternity, or atrocious as unvarying perpetuity [Weil] |
| 24202 | Obedience to an illegitimate ruler is a nightmare [Weil] |
| 24218 | People can't be citizens in public life if they are oppressed in economic life [Weil] |
| 24200 | A citizen is defined by their subjection to the laws [Weil] |
| 24201 | Social order is equilibrium of forces, which must be corrected when imbalanced [Weil] |
| 24199 | There is no oppression, or oppressive class; there is only an oppressive society [Weil] |
| 24203 | Atheistic materialism must be revolutionary, because its good is in the future [Weil] |
| 24190 | Anarchists thought (hopelessly) that empowering the oppressed would end evil [Weil] |
| 24221 | Equality is the result of unlimited freedom [Weil] |
| 24217 | History is scientific when it relies on accurate documents [Weil] |
| 24204 | The past is known to us but unreachable - a perfect image of eternal, supernatural reality [Weil] |
| 24222 | If we ignore all our thoughts of the past and the future, there is nothing left of the present [Weil] |
| 24220 | As the highest value, God cannot be proved [Weil] |
| 24192 | My love makes me believe in God; the inconceivability of this God makes me disbelieve [Weil] |
| 24178 | We must leave on one side the ordinary 'consolations' of religion [Weil] |
| 24206 | Revolution (not religion) is the opium of the people [Weil] |
| 24180 | We just see immortality as prolongation of life, making death meaningless [Weil] |
| 24186 | If the world lacked evil, then the evil would be in our desires, which would be worse [Weil] |
| 24187 | Without worldly affliction, we'd think this is paradise [Weil] |