Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role… — 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
