Simone Weil Quotes about Truth

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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Simone Weil

Truth, Dwelling, Long

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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.

Simone Weil

Truth, Lying, People

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.

Simone Weil

Crush, Truth, Men

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