I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“When one goes on to find "better", or "higher", or "truer", or "more enduring", or "more widely agreed upon" forms of beauty,… — Elaine Scarry 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… — Ann McElhinney Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I hope I have now made it clear why I thought it best, in speaking of the dissonances between fiction and reality… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“the essence of sin is not [primarily] the violation of laws but a wrecked relationship with God, one another, and the whole… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. -Simone Weil” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“We need to return from the self-centred concept of sincerity to the other-centred concept of truth. We are not isolated free choosers,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I was trying to discover examples of a living restoration, trying to go beyond discussions about correct historic colors, materials, and techniques.… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil.… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“When the hammer strikes a nail, the extreme force of the blow on the broad head is transmitted without loss to the… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“Simone Weil was absolutely right- beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts. Because this is so… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“It has taken me much of my life to begin to get to the second gaze. By nature I have a critical… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new,… — Mar Preston Copy Share Image
... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Lo que caracteriza a un hombre superior es superar la cultura que ha recibido." Simone Weil. Carta a Jacques Lafitte” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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