It 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 WEILIt 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.
More Simone Weil Quotes
-
-
Love is not consolation, it is light.
SIMONE WEIL -
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
SIMONE WEIL -
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
SIMONE WEIL -
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
SIMONE WEIL -
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
SIMONE WEIL -
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
SIMONE WEIL -
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
SIMONE WEIL -
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
SIMONE WEIL -
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
SIMONE WEIL -
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
SIMONE WEIL -
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 -
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
SIMONE WEIL -
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
SIMONE WEIL -
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
SIMONE WEIL -
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
SIMONE WEIL