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Simone Weil Quotes - Page 5

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For 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.

For 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.

Friendship, Two, Near And Far

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.42, Routledge

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

Thinking, Justice, Different

Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.188, U of Nebraska Press

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Environmental, World, Matter

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.60, Routledge

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

Thinking, World, Affliction

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

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Running, Learning, Breathing

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.81, Routledge

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Truth Is

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.118, Psychology Press

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Powerful, Light, Years

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.33, Routledge

All 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 where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

Filling Up, Law, Space

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Light, Choices, Plant

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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Levers, Contradiction, Transcendence

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Truth, Lying, People

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

Wisdom, Fun, Affliction

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.26, Psychology Press

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

Life, War, Attention And Love

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

Desire, Treasure, Misers

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.15, Psychology Press

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.

Inspirational, Uplifting, Space

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.10, Psychology Press

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

Lying, Rights, Two

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.86, Psychology Press

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Order, Causes

Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.563, Routledge

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

Running, Real, Teaching

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.34, Routledge

The 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.

Peace, War, Errors

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Meditation, Desire, Awareness

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.22, Psychology Press

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

Science, Intellectual, Principles

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

As 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.

Encouragement, Punishment, Killers

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.174, Wipf and Stock Publishers

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

Rights, Relation, Duty

Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.2, Routledge

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Spiritual, Men, Class

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.174, Wipf and Stock Publishers

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Country, Suffering, Humiliation

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

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