Attention Quotes by Simone Weil

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

— Simone Weil

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

— Simone Weil

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

— Simone Weil

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

— Simone Weil

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

— Simone Weil

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

— Simone Weil

“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”

— Simone Weil

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

— Simone Weil

“Creative attention means really giving our attention to what does not exist.”

— Simone Weil

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact…

— Simone Weil

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

— Simone Weil

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch…

— Simone Weil

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of…

— Simone Weil

“The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is…

— Simone Weil

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due…

— Simone Weil

prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality…

— Simone Weil

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary.…

— Simone Weil

There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that…

— Simone Weil

School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek."…

— Simone Weil

The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and…

— Simone Weil

If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we…

— Simone Weil

A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the…

— 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…

— Simone Weil