It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
SIMONE WEILA man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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