Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it. — 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
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to… — 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
It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does… — 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
