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A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

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

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

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

Humility is attentive patience.

Simone Weil

I can, therefore I am.

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

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Weil

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Simone Weil

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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

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

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

Humility is attentive patience.

Simone Weil

I can, therefore I am.

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

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Weil

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Simone Weil

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