Simone Weil Quotes

Simone Weil
French Philosopher
Born: Feb 3, 1909
Died: Aug 24, 1943
Does Every God Life Nothing Who
Related authors: Albert Camus Blaise Pascal Henri Bergson Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Michel de Montaigne Montesquieu Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. Simone Weil
Soul Important Recognized Perhaps Most Least Human The Most Important Rooted Human Soul Need
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil
Great Reality Detached Someone Only Attachment Attained Who Illusions
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. Simone Weil
Made Crushed Nothing Side Unless Oneself Feel Feels Crushing Understand Oppressed Person Human Human Beings Happening Cannot Placed Them Who Beings
Humility is attentive patience. Simone Weil
Patience Humility Attentive
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. Simone Weil
Truth Man Equality Grace Liberty Value Beauty Thinking Wrong Himself Without Get Infinite Them Humanism
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. Simone Weil
Truth Time Truth Is Humiliation Long Long Time Own State Extreme Way Total Only Through Annihilation Dwelling
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. Simone Weil
Obligation Human Being Hunger Toward Him Coming His Human Being Eternal Suffer Assistance Chance
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. Simone Weil
Soul Lie Doubt Danger Hungry Itself Any Bread Whether Persuade Should Lest
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. Simone Weil
Conflict Cause More Likely Than Wheat International Petroleum
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. Simone Weil
God Communication Communicate Separation Every Other Knocking Also Prisoners Link Wall Same Cells Which Them Us Means Separates Each Whose Thing Two
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. Simone Weil
Faith Reality Made Mysteries Negation Degraded Object Contemplation Affirmation Should
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Simone Weil
Others Ourselves Degradation Hurtful Bear Which Act
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. Simone Weil
Listening Compassion Affliction Difficult Someone Know Him Listen Just Really
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. Simone Weil
Life Friendship Art Great Joy Fault Ought Like Joys Afforded Want Gratuitous
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. Simone Weil
Needs Equality Degree Manners Recognition Attention Institutions Equal Principle Due Effectively Human Human Beings Public Beings Expressed
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. Simone Weil
Intelligence Human Being Whatever Entire Human Being
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. Simone Weil
Work Spirituality Lies Civilization True Contemporary True Greatness Greatness Form Founded
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. Simone Weil
Justice Crime Society Hideous One Thing More Only Only One Thing Namely Than Modern Repressive Modern Society Thing
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. Simone Weil
Paradise Hell Must Real Prefer Imaginary
When 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 Weil
Life Spiritual Class People Value Men Nothing Once Those Ranks Has-Been Temporal More Outside Been Than Authorities Placed Then Certain Naturally Whose
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. Simone Weil
Destruction Past Crimes Perhaps Greatest
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. Simone Weil
Soil Poison Other Some More Like Becomes Hitherto Diseases Tuberculosis Skepticism Much
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. Simone Weil
Life God Life Is A Every Parable Invented Perfect Perfect Life
A mind enclosed in language is in prison. Simone Weil
Language Mind Prison Enclosed
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. Simone Weil
Power Nothing Humility Virtue More Attention Nor Intellectual Than Order Less
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. Simone Weil
Power Possess Over Get
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