100 Quotations by Simone Weil
- 21. For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends ar ...
- 22. Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the se ...
- 23. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art.
- 24. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace ...
- 25. Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed wh ...
- 26. Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, ...
- 27. Humility is attentive patience.
- 28. I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in ...
- 29. I can, therefore I am.'
- 30. I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
- 31. I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which ...
- 32. If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy mo ...
- 33. If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ce ...
- 34. If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
- 35. Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
- 36. Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real ne ...
- 37. In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been a ...
- 38. In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in bloss ...
- 39. In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produce ...
- 40. In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
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