If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“If there is a real desire, if the thing desired is really light, the desire for light produces it. There is a… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God… — 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
Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion… — 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
