black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Simone Weil

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

Faith Obstacle Religion True
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
SIMONE WEIL

Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
SIMONE WEIL

Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
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
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
SIMONE WEIL

Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
SIMONE WEIL

Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
SIMONE WEIL

Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
SIMONE WEIL

End Power Understand
The world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEIL

God Language One Liner World
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
SIMONE WEIL

Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
SIMONE WEIL

Myself One Liner Patriot
Pain 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 WEIL

Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEIL

Ability One Liner Purity
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
SIMONE WEIL

Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone Weil Quotes