At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it… — 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
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
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself. — 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
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — 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
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that… — 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
Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real… — 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
