If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it. — 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
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
It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there… — 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
