Quotes Simone Weil

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensa...

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradati...

A mind enclosed in language is in prison....

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

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including wa...

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys ar...

All sins are attempts to fill voids....

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concen...

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punis...

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can...

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything....

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing....

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture ...

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction...

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

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God....

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I comm...

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

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

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other ...

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

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing f...

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liber...

Humility is attentive patience....

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, whic...