Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Love on the part of someone who is happy is the wish to share the suffering of the beloved who is unhappy.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“We should not seize upon these mysteries as truths, for that is impossible, but recognize the subordination to these mysteries which we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“But we can be nearly sure that those whose love for God has caused their pure loves here below to disappear are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the world is the tender smile of Christ to us through matter. He is really present in universal beauty.… — 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
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through? — 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
