“To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Piety in regard to the dead: to do everything for what does not exist.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ” — 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
