“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” ― Simone Weil   “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” ― Simone Weil     “All sins are attempts to fill voids.” ― Simone Weil     “Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ” ― Simone Weil     “A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.” ― Simone Weil     “Love is not…

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates     “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates     “I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.” – Socrates     “Be as you wish to seem.” – Socrates   “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning…

“If women want rights more than they got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” ― Sojourner Truth     “I’m not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” ― Sojourner Truth     “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t…