There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural… — 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
