There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty. — 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 beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can… — 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
Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“We want to get behind the beauty, but it is only a surface. It is like a mirror that reflects to us… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the world is the mouth of a labyrinth. The unwary individual who on entering takes a few steps is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Art has no immediate future because all art is collective and there is no more collective life(there are only dead collections of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Carnal love in all its forms, from the highest — true marriage or platonic love — to the most base, down to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The beauty of this world is Christ's tender smile coming to us through matter.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil. — 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
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into… — 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
