The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade… — 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
“But we can be nearly sure that those whose love for God has caused their pure loves here below to disappear are… — 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
“There are four evidences of divine mercy here below. The favors of God to beings capable of contemplation (these states exist and… — 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
“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
“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
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
