What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized? Simone Weil More Quotes by Simone Weil More Quotes From Simone Weil 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 mirrorsbeautifulbelieve Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry. Simone Weil lightbreadneeds You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything. Simone Weil lost-everythingbornlost Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good. Simone Weil truth-is Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn. Simone Weil sightlove-isbeauty Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. Simone Weil realinspiringinspirational To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God. Simone Weil injusticevictimfaith-in-god What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them. Simone Weil economicsoppressionappearance A mind enclosed in language is in prison. Simone Weil languageprisonmind Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets. Simone Weil sacrificebalancelooks 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 hungerchancesuffering There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light. Simone Weil inabilityfaultslight The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics. Simone Weil errorswarpeace The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something. Simone Weil powerfulmenbelieve Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood. Simone Weil understoodendspower Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself. Simone Weil uprootingrootsmoving I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness. Simone Weil forgivenessimagineknows The world is God's language to us. Simone Weil languagegodworld Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith ; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong. Simone Weil atheismatheistfaith Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. Simone Weil inspirationgivingpeople
