Simone Weil Quotes about Life

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Love is not consolation, it is light.

Simone Weil

Love, Life, Light

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.14, Psychology Press

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

Simone Weil

Life, Real, Carpe Diem

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

Simone Weil

Life, War, Attention And Love

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

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

Simone Weil

Life, Dominion, Force

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

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

Simone Weil

Life, Men, Giving

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

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Simone Weil

Life, Knowing, Atheism

Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.84, Wipf and Stock Publishers