Simone Weil's Quotes

Simone Weil's Quotes 78

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy,...

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of...

"In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle...

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better...

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except...

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to...

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to...

Love is not consolation. It is light.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the...

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it or thinks he does as it is...

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

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

In the intellectual order the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less...

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

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

Humility is attentive patience.

I can therefore I am.

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

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

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

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