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Simone Weil Quotes - Page 3

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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Beautiful, Eternity, Mark

Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.197, Cambridge University Press

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Time, Past, Crime

Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.48, Routledge

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Silence, Cry, Indifferent

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

Believe, History, Matter

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

Tragedy, Return, Imagine

Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.197, Cambridge University Press

Joy is being fully aware of reality.

Reality, Joy

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

Beautiful, Fall, Tree

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

Wealth, Rich, Mercy

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.24, Routledge

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

Beautiful, Sky

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

Happiness, Real, Evil

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.70, Psychology Press

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Prayer, Attention

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.117, Psychology Press

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Truth, Dwelling, Long

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Spiritual, Reality, Attachment

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

People, Revolution, Opium

Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.596, Routledge

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Mind, Language, Prison

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Equality 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.

Equality, Degrees, Needs

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.224, Wipf and Stock Publishers

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Wisdom, Justice, Modern

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.31, Wipf and Stock Publishers

The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.

Military, War, Fighting

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Acceptance, Men, Thinking

Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.79, Routledge

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

Faith In God, Injustice, Victim

Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.144, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Difficult 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.

Nursing, Compassion, Listening

Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

Lying, Greatness, Suffering

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.81, Psychology Press

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

Grief, Struggle, Serenity

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Science, Men, Names

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

Inspirational, Inspiring, Real

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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