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Renunciation is submission to time.
— 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
The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
— Simone Weil
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
— 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
Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
— Simone Weil
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
— Simone Weil
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
— Simone Weil
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
— Simone Weil
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.
— Simone Weil
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
— Simone Weil
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
— Simone Weil
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
— Simone Weil
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
— Simone Weil
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.
— Simone Weil
One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.
— Simone Weil
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
— Simone Weil
I can, therefore I am.
— Simone Weil
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
— Simone Weil
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
— Simone Weil
Truth is one, but error is manifold.
— Simone Weil
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.
— Simone Weil
To find extraordinary difficulty in doing an ordinary action is a favor which calls for gratitude.
— Simone Weil
Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.
— Simone Weil
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
— Simone Weil
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
— Simone Weil
The fact of dying for what is strong robs death of its bitterness - and at the same time of all its value.
— Simone Weil
The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.
— Simone Weil
What a country calls its vital ... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
— Simone Weil
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
— Simone Weil
One is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.
— Simone Weil
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
— Simone Weil
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
— Simone Weil
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
— Simone Weil
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.
— Simone Weil
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
— Simone Weil
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of His with the certainty of experience. I have touched it.
— Simone Weil
Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
— Simone Weil
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
— Simone Weil
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
— Simone Weil
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
— Simone Weil
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
— Simone Weil
The only great spirit of our time.
— Simone Weil
An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.
— Simone Weil
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
— Simone Weil
Conformity is an imitation of grace.
— Simone Weil
It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
— Simone Weil
Time does us violence; it is the only violence.
— Simone Weil
The world is God's language to us.
— Simone Weil
But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. "Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." 240.
— Maggie Nelson
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. — Simone Weil
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.
— Simone Weil
The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.
— Simone Weil
