The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right to the soul.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“To give up our imaginary position as the center, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the world is the tender smile of Christ to us through matter. He is really present in universal beauty.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“God rewards the soul that focuses on Him with attention and love, and God rewards that soul by exercising a rigorous compulsion… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The form that the love of religion takes in the soul differs a great deal according to the circumstances of out lives.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it… — Simone Weil Copy Share
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil Copy Share
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the… — Simone Weil Copy Share
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil Copy Share
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. — Simone Weil Copy Share
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