It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through… — 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
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against… — 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
