Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of… — 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
A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact… — 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
School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek."… — 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 capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it… — 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
The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies. — 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 Image
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 Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — 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 by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
