Simone Weil Quotes

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• Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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  Kindness, Caring, Generosity

  Letter to Joë Bousquet on April 13, 1942. "Correspondance", published by Editions l'Age d'Homme in Lausanne, p. 18, 1982.

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• We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

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  Christian, Religious, Adversity

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• Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

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  Pain, Hands, Suffering

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• Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

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  Spiritual, Humility, Acceptance

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• Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

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  Humility, Compassion, Oneself

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• There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

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  Beauty, Heart, Two

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• 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.

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  Crush, Sides, Oppression

  Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

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  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God”

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• To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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  Soul, Important, Needs

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.43, Routledge

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• All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

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  Filling Up, Law, Space

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• All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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  Inspirational, Memorable, Void

  La Pesanteur et la Grace "Desirer sans Objet" (1948)

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• Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

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  Doubt, Trying, Tyranny

  Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

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• The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

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  Pride, Intelligent, Men

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

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  Power, Ends, Understood

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.146, Psychology Press

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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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  Reason, Should, God's Love

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

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  Lying, Greatness, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.81, Psychology Press

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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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  Nature, Light, Sky

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• Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

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  Love You, Self, Existence

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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  Heart, World, Longing

  Simone Weil, Janet Patricia Little (2003). “Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

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  Tyrants, Evil, Politics

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.71, Psychology Press

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• Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

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  Creation, Acts Of Love, Perpetual

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.32, Psychology Press

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• Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

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  Art, Two, Effort

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

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  Brother, Betrayal, Military

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• 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.

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  Nursing, Compassion, Listening

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

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• Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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  Reality, Joy

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