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
The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness. — 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
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware… — 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
The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that… — 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
