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Love Quotes by Simone Weil

45 Love quotes by Simone Weil

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Simone Weil writes that only those who understand the limits of force can truly love and be just. She urges us to reject the dream of friendship as a fault, seeing pure love as a radiant beauty that does not seek revenge even when hurt. She links love of neighbor to a deeper acceptance of the world.

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Distance is the soul of beauty.

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Man alone can enslave man.

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Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

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The only great spirit of our time.

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Fire destroys that which feeds it.

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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

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The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

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Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

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Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

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Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being…

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We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

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“To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.”

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If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love…

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“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”

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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware…

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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

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One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only…

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It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think…

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Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a…

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“The beauty of the world is the tender smile of Christ to us through matter. He is really present in universal beauty.…

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“Love on the part of someone who is happy is the wish to share the suffering of the beloved who is unhappy.…

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Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God…

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The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the…

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“We should not seize upon these mysteries as truths, for that is impossible, but recognize the subordination to these mysteries which we…

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All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world,…

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Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling…

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“But we can be nearly sure that those whose love for God has caused their pure loves here below to disappear are…

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It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to…

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“Carnal love in all its forms, from the highest — true marriage or platonic love — to the most base, down to…

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“God created through love and for love. God did not create anything except love itself, and the means to love. He created…

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“The form that the love of religion takes in the soul differs a great deal according to the circumstances of out lives.…

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“God rewards the soul that focuses on Him with attention and love, and God rewards that soul by exercising a rigorous compulsion…

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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

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Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

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The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased…

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it…

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the…

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is…

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

Joy is being fully aware of reality.