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Simone Weil Quotes - Page 2

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Love is not consolation, it is light.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

Love, Life, Light

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.14, Psychology Press

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Art, Two, Effort

Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Kindness, Optimistic, Mean People

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.72, Psychology Press

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

Intimate Conversation, Names, Two

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.19, Routledge

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

Tyrants, Evil, Politics

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.71, Psychology Press

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

Fire, Challenges

Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.132, Routledge

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

Grace, Void, Form

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Responsibility, Self, Self Responsibility

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

Real, Civilization, Intellectual

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.156, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Inspiration, People, Giving

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.

Country, Thinking, Men

Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.43, Routledge

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Prayer, Giving, Soul

There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.

Stars, Night, Thinking

There 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 actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Real, Lying, Giving

Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Forgiveness, Imagine, Knows

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.9, Psychology Press

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

Life, Real, Carpe Diem

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.56, Psychology Press

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

Love Is, Radiance, Pure Love

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.29, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

Single, Solitude, Affection

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.67, Psychology Press

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

Distance, Sin, Wrong Direction

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.41, Routledge

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

Christian, Prayer, Religion

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Obstacles, Source, Consolation

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Beauty, Equality, Men

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Imagine, Christ, Easier

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.89, Psychology Press

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Thank You, Gratitude, Joy

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.63, Psychology Press

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