Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone WeilThe role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone WeilOne does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
Simone Weil