Sublime

Novelist and mystic Romaine Rolland says, “There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.”

In the subordination of society to the individual lies the definition of true democracy and that of socialism as well.

On est très mal placé en haut pour se rendre compte et en bas pour agir. Je pense que c’est là, d’une manière générale, une des causes essentielles des malheurs humains.

La seconde, c’est que l’humanité se divise en deux catégories, les gens qui comptent pour quelque chose et les gens qui comptent pour rien. Quand on est dans la seconde, on en arrive à trouver naturel de compter pour rien – ce qui ne veut certes pas dire qu’on ne souffre pas.

This goes to the heart of Weil’s enterprise: the corollary to another’s needs is our obligation to recognize them, regardless of conditions.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labour which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

All genuine revolutionaries have understood that the revolution implies the dissemination of knowledge among the population as a whole.