D. Simone Quotes
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.
Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I’m her knight in shinning armor.
Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.
it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.
Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess.
The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let go even if I wanted to.
I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
