We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEILWe only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEILThere is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
SIMONE WEILIn struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
SIMONE WEILGod is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
SIMONE WEILThe world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEILReligion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
SIMONE WEILThe beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
SIMONE WEILWhat a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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 WEILI suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEILSin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
SIMONE WEILIt is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
SIMONE WEILAt 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 WEILI also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
SIMONE WEILGod’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 WEILWhen once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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