At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors. — 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. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. — 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
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — 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
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter. — 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 is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade… — 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
