Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
SIMONE WEILCompassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
SIMONE WEILA hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
SIMONE WEILA 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 WEILAbsolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
SIMONE WEILStars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
SIMONE WEILWar is the supreme form of prestige.
SIMONE WEILFortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
SIMONE WEILEvery sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEILThe world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEILThe virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
SIMONE WEILIt is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
SIMONE WEILTrue definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
SIMONE WEILThere are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
SIMONE WEILThe glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
SIMONE WEILEquality 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 WEILAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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