The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts? — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. — 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
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would… — 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
![“The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.” quote by Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13c/simone-weil-544_bears_the-same-suffering-is-much-harder-to-bea_1340865.jpg)
