“We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. — 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
Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“If there is a real desire, if the thing desired is really light, the desire for light produces it. There is a… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have 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
