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Simone Weil Quotes about Evil

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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

Evil, Way

Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

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

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

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

Men, Evil, Effort

"On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 168, 1968.

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Heart, Evil, Teeth

Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.59, Routledge

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

Lying, Ideas, Evil

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

Beautiful, Reality, Evil

Source: www.apologetics315.com

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

Evil, Boredom, Soul

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.226, Wipf and Stock Publishers

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

Evil, Excellence, Literature

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

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Pain, Roots, Evil

Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.69, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

Evil, Infinity, Hell

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

A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.

Evil, Church, Mixtures

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

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Evil, Morality, Aliens

"On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 169, 1968.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Evil, Suffering, Together

Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

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