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The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.'… - Simone Weil
" "The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.'''
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Simone Adolphine Weil (3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French social and religious philosopher, and Christian mystic. Politically active, during the Spanish Civil War she joined the Anarchist military unit known as the Durruti Column, and took part in the French Resistance during World War II. She was the sister of mathematician André Weil, with whom she shared an interest in ancient Greek and Indian thought.
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It is incontestable that the void which we grasp with the pincers of contradiction is from on high, for we grasp it the better the more we sharpen our natural faculties of intelligence, will and love. The void which is from below is that into which we fall when we allow our natural faculties to become atrophied.
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