Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Art has no immediate future because all art is collective and there is no more collective life(there are only dead collections of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors. ” — 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
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. Two prisoners… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“We cannot take a single step towards heaven. It is not In our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The comparison of religions is only possible, in some measure, through the miraculous virtue of sympathy. We can know men to a… — 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
Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do… — 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
