Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that… — 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
God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek."… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the… — 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
It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,… — 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
