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A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Simone Weil
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
Simone Weil
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
Simone Weil
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone Weil
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Simone Weil
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone Weil
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Simone Weil
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Simone Weil
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone Weil
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone Weil
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.
Simone Weil
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone Weil
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