“Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.”
The Human Condition (1958), part 3, chapter 16.
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“If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place.”
“Addicted to that Rush,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=488 WorldNetDaily.com, March 6, 2009.
2000s, 2009
Source: True at First Light (1999), Ch. 1
vol. 1, p. 131
The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (1941)
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
“A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.”
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Thinking
Celui qui ignore à quel point la fortune variable et la nécessité tiennent toute âme humaine sous leur dépendance ne peut pas regarder comme des semblables ni aimer comme soi-même ceux que le hasard a séparés de lui par un abîme. La diversité des contraintes qui pèsent sur les hommes fait naître l'illusion qu'il y a parmi eux des espèces distinctes qui ne peuvent communiquer.
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 192
Second Treatise of Government, Ch. IX, sec. 123
Two Treatises of Government (1689)