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Us Quotes by Simone Weil
- Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together;…
- Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable…
- In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of…
- All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and…
- The world is God's language to us.
- 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…
- It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
- To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at…
- The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
- A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
- 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…
- The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
- Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and…
- It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of…
- 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,…
- 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…
- We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.
- Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
- Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan…
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