Simone WeilThose who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. ✨ Simone Weil (2009). Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals), p… ▶371Humanity
Simone WeilWhen war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called… ▶372PoliticsReading
Simone WeilEquality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. … ▶361HumanityPolitics
Simone WeilWe 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 (1952). Gravity an… ▶372Truth
Simone WeilImaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. ✨ Simone … ▶372Death
Simone WeilHe who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those w… ▶372HumanityLoveReading
Simone WeilTo set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). Selected E… ▶351Politics
Simone WeilThe danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. ✨ Simone Weil (2009). Waiting o… ▶362Reading
Simone WeilThe great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.362DeathPoliticsReflection
Simone WeilLove of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude. ✨ Simone Weil (2002). Gravity and Grace, p.63, Psychology Press373Love
Simone WeilThere is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the act… ▶373LifePoliticsReading
Simone WeilToday it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent. ✨ Simone Weil… ▶341Time
Simone WeilAs soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). Select… ▶374Politics
Simone WeilHow many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?363Humanity
Simone WeilWe are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light. ✨ Simone Weil.353Thought
Simone WeilFor when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. ✨ Simone Weil (2009). Waiting on God … ▶331Life
Simone WeilThe work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make. ✨ Simone Weil (2013). The Notebooks of Simone Weil, p.206, Routledge321Reading
Simone WeilThe contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work. ✨ The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankin… ▶343HumanityTruth
Simone WeilIt 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 (2003). The Need for Ro… ▶365Humanity
Simone WeilIf we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. ✨ Simone Weil (2002). Gravity and Grace, p.22, Psychology Press332Sadness
Simone WeilThe man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the… ▶343ReadingTime
Simone WeilWhen we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If… ▶377ReadingSadnessTime
Simone WeilThe role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. ✨ Simone Weil (2002). Gravity and Grace, p.130, Psycholo… ▶322Politics
Simone WeilDifficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ✨ Simone Weil (1973). Waiting for … ▶355Love
Simone WeilLove: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers366LifeLoveReading
Simone WeilContemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.377Thought
Simone WeilAll the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter w… ▶311Politics
Simone WeilLife does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers333LifeReading
Simone WeilArt is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.4… ▶334HumanityReading
Simone WeilThe poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. ✨ Simone Weil (2002). Gravity and Grace, p.119, Psychology Press323Truth
