Simone Weil Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Simone Weil
Simone Weil Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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.
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue of this fact regarded with contempt.
We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.
There isn't a man on earth who doesn't at times pronounce an opinion on good and evil, even if it be only to find fault with somebody else.
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of His with the certainty of experience. I have touched it.
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate ...
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.