Simone Weil Quotes

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• Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.
• One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is…
• There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us,…
• Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
• True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
• Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
• Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we…
• Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
• All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty…
• Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
• He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
• We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
• Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the…
• How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
• Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
• We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.
• The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
• The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?
• We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
• Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

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