Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
SIMONE WEILContradiction is the lever of transcendence.
SIMONE WEILEvery sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEILImaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
SIMONE WEILLove is not consolation, it is light.
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 WEILEverything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
SIMONE WEILGrace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
SIMONE WEILAn atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEILWe only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEILPain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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 WEILOne has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
SIMONE WEILAll sins are attempts to fill voids.
SIMONE WEILThe love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
SIMONE WEILLove: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
SIMONE WEILTo be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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