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Only Quotes by Simone Weil
- Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this…
- We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The…
- In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social…
- The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only…
- It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one…
- Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
- When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point…
- One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is…
- There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
- There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
- When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or…
- There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is…
- As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent…
- Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to…
- It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the…
- Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs…
- In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
- Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
- The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
- It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of…
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