Simone Weil's Quotes

Simone Weil's Quotes 78

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a...

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime...

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems...

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even...

Humility is attentive patience.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and...

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned...

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in...

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history....

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only...

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on...

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the...

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of...

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the...

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and...

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it,...

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality...

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