
“Safeguard the warmth of the family, because all the warmth of the world will not make up for it.”
Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)
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“Safeguard the warmth of the family, because all the warmth of the world will not make up for it.”
Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)
“What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.”
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 59
Context: A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold and desolate misery. What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.
Physical labour may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.
"Highway Patrolman"
Song lyrics, Nebraska (1982)
Interview https://twitter.com/ErikHorneOK/status/909508614259445760 with The Oklahoman’s Erik Horne (September 17, 2017); as quoted in "NBA players explain why they are going vegan and vegetarian" https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/nba-players-explain-why-they-are-going-vegan-and-vegetarian/ar-AAu21r4, MSN.com (October 25, 2017).
“If you wish,
I shall grow irreproachably tender:
not a man, but a cloud in trousers!”
Page 61.
The Cloud in Trousers (1915)