Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it. Simone Weil More Quotes by Simone Weil More Quotes From Simone Weil The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make. Simone Weil works-of-artart To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal. Simone Weil prayerchristianreligion Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not. Simone Weil ironhatredself Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. Simone Weil starstreegiving One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. Simone Weil sufferingcourageinspirational At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done Simone Weil teethevilheart Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten. Simone Weil flavorappreciateform When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. Simone Weil insomniadoorslying We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them. Simone Weil precious-giftswaiting The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting. Simone Weil philosophyscienceyears Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. Simone Weil attachmentwantreality It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction. Simone Weil soullovefall It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms. Simone Weil doefallthinking Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. Simone Weil causesorder We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. Simone Weil greekmatterfirsts 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 soulfaithlying Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement. Simone Weil contemplatingabilitypurity Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this. Simone Weil failuresleepmen The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself. Simone Weil beastidolatryimitation It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures. Simone Weil godmatterimpossible
