Simone Weil quotes

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. (Simone Weil)
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Simone Weil
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone Weil
Love is not consolation, it is light.
Simone Weil
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
Simone Weil
Distance is the soul of beauty.
Simone Weil
Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone Weil
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Simone Weil
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Simone Weil
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. (Simone Weil)
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Simone Weil
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.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
I can, therefore I am.
Simone Weil
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Simone Weil
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
Simone Weil
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny .
Simone Weil
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. (Simone Weil)
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing it is almost a miracle it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.
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If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
Simone Weil
God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
Simone Weil
An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it - neither higher nor lower.
Simone Weil