It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This… — 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
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots… — 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
