black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Simone Weil

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
SIMONE WEIL

Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
The world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEIL

God Language One Liner World
What 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 WEIL

Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
SIMONE WEIL

Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
SIMONE WEIL

Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
SIMONE WEIL

Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
SIMONE WEIL

Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
SIMONE WEIL

Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEIL

Empty Fly Sin
A 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 WEIL

Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Even 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 WEIL

Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
SIMONE WEIL

Imagination Life Make Up Reality
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
SIMONE WEIL

Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
SIMONE WEIL

Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
SIMONE WEIL

Doubt Pain Trying

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone Weil Quotes