Simone Weil Quotes - Page 12

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• Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

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  Thinking, Mind, Vision

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• Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

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  Life, Order, Doe

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

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  Thinking, Crucifixion Of Christ, Envy

  Waiting on God Letter 4 (1950)

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• Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

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  Evil, Infinity, Hell

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.

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  Prayer, Children, School

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God.

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  Men, Hands, Silence

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

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  Civilization, Bureaucracy, Specialization

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• In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

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  Humility, Power, Order

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.128, Psychology Press

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• The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

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  Dangerous, Quantity, Lure

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.6, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

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  Beauty, Trying, Looks

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.150, Psychology Press

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• Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

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  Destiny, Ideas, Progress

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.

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  Evil, Church, Mixtures

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

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  Peace, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.11, Routledge

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• A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

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  Wall, Hate, Men

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

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• It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

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  Truth, Desire, Impossible

  Simone Weil (1970). “First and last notebooks”

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• One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

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  Degrees, Movement, Charity

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.41, Routledge

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• The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

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  Lying, Greatness, Civilization

  "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind".

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• To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

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  Weight, Bears, Innocent

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.91, Psychology Press

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• To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

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  Power

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.70, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

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  Men, Europe, People

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• War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

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  War, Preparation, Important

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.16, Routledge

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• 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.

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  Self, Iron, Hatred

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.40, Routledge

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• Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

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  Men, Giving, Debt

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.9, Psychology Press

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• If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul.

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  Light, Knowing, Soul

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

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• The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

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  Expression, Personality, Privilege

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.74, Routledge

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