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Simone Weil Quotes - Page 2

Love is not consolation, it is light.

Love is not consolation, it is 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.

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

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

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

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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