Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
SIMONE WEILReligion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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.
SIMONE WEILI suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEILThere are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
SIMONE WEILAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
SIMONE WEILIt is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
SIMONE WEILAbsolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
SIMONE WEILThere is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
SIMONE WEILFor 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 WEILJoy is being fully aware of reality.
SIMONE WEILI also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
SIMONE WEILNever react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
SIMONE WEILWhenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
SIMONE WEILTo be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
SIMONE WEILEven if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
SIMONE WEILThe intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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