Simone Weil Quotes
- Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.
- To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
- I can, therefore I am.
- Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
- Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
- A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
- For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no…
- In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
- Humility is attentive patience.
- Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
- The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
- When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
- A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
- All sins are attempts to fill voids.
- Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
- The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
- An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
- Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also…
- Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
- Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.