A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.Simone Weil
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.Simone Weil
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.Simone Weil
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.Simone Weil
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.F. Scott Fitzgerald
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.F. Scott Fitzgerald
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.F. Scott Fitzgerald
