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Simone Weil Quotes - Page 6

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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Renounce

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.34, Psychology Press

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

Opportunity, Civilization, Firsts

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

Light, Inability, Faults

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

Religion, Essentials, Knows

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

Lost Everything, Lost, Born

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.177, Psychology Press

It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.

Spiritual, Men, Order

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.166, Psychology Press

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

Creation, Imitation, Apprehension

Simone Weil, Arthur Wills (1956). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.480, Psychology Press

The world is God's language to us.

God, World, Language

Simone Weil, Arthur Wills (1956). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.480, Psychology Press

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

Firsts, Indirect, Method

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

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

Imagination, Suffering, Ugly

Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.199, U of Nebraska Press

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

Sin, Humans, Wretchedness

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

Loan, Exception, Values

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.31, Psychology Press

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

Life, Dominion, Force

Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.

Powerful, Believe, Men

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Stars, Giving, Tree

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

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

God, Wall, Communication

Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.200, U of Nebraska Press

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

Art, Works Of Art

Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.206, Routledge

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

Pharisees, Beast, Obedience

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.169, Psychology Press

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

Order, Evil, Desire

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.74, Psychology Press

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Humility, Compassion, Oneself

Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.104, Wipf and Stock Publishers

I can, therefore I am.

Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

Trying, Attention, Faults

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.116, Psychology Press

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Modern Life, Action, Life Is

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.153, Psychology Press

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Peace, Giving, Doe

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Crush, Truth, Men

Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

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