black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Simone Weil

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
SIMONE WEIL

Myself One Liner Patriot
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
SIMONE WEIL

Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
SIMONE WEIL

Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
SIMONE WEIL

Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Grace 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 WEIL

Empty Grace Inspirational Space
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
SIMONE WEIL

Exception Gift Loan Value
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

Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEIL

Ability One Liner Purity
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
SIMONE WEIL

Angry Grief Production Struggle
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
SIMONE WEIL

Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
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

Goodness Heart Human Object World
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
SIMONE WEIL

Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
SIMONE WEIL

Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
SIMONE WEIL

People Religion Revolution
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
SIMONE WEIL

God Love Ourselves Reason
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEIL

Country Humility Myself Suffering

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone Weil Quotes