Quotes of Simone Weil - somelinesforyou

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

- Simone Weil

“ Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. ”

- Simone Weil

“ The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. ”

- Simone Weil

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

- Simone Weil

“ If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ”

- Simone Weil

“ I can, therefore I am. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. ”

- Simone Weil

“ At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space of partial truth, which may be larger or smaller, without ever being able so much as to glance at what is outside. ”

- Simone Weil

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

- Simone Weil

“ We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists. ”

- Simone Weil

“ We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose. ”

- Simone Weil

“ He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose. ”

- Simone Weil

“ When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Among human beings, only the existence of those we love is fully recognized. Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love. ”

- Simone Weil

“ We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly. ”

- Simone Weil

“ In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Monotony is the most beautiful or the most atrocious thing. The most beautiful if it is a reflection of eternitythe most atrocious if it is the sign of an unvarying perpetuity. It is time surpassed or time sterilized. ”

- 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 void. ”

- Simone Weil

“ We can only know one thing about God — that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. ”

- Simone Weil

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

- Simone Weil

“ It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. ”

- Simone Weil

“ The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. ”

- Simone Weil
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