Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
SIMONE WEILThe intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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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.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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.
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