black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
SIMONE WEIL

Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEIL

Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
SIMONE WEIL

End Power Understand
Love is not consolation, it is light.
SIMONE WEIL

Life Light Love
The world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEIL

God Language One Liner World
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
SIMONE WEIL

Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
SIMONE WEIL

Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
SIMONE WEIL

Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
SIMONE WEIL

Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
SIMONE WEIL

Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEIL

Escape Ourselves Possession
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
SIMONE WEIL

Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
SIMONE WEIL

Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
SIMONE WEIL

Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
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

Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
SIMONE WEIL

Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone Weil Quotes