In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we… — 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
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
A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an… — 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
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact… — 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
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling… — 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
“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
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that… — 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
