I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself… — 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
It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false? — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them. — 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
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
