Simone Weil Quotes about Reality

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Joy is being fully aware of reality.

Simone Weil

Reality, Joy

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

Simone Weil

Spiritual, Reality, Attachment

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Simone Weil

Spiritual, Reality, Aggravation

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.129, Psychology Press

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

Simone Weil

Beautiful, Reality, Evil

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One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.

Simone Weil

Reality, Men, Thinking