In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. — 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
A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence. — 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
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new,… — 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
