We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
SIMONE WEILWe are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
SIMONE WEILTrue definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
SIMONE WEILWe must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
SIMONE WEILThe beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
SIMONE WEILAn atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEILTo be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
SIMONE WEILIn struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
SIMONE WEILOfficial history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
SIMONE WEILThe intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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.
SIMONE WEILEvery sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEILIt is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
SIMONE WEILI suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEILTruth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
SIMONE WEILThere are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
SIMONE WEILIt is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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