Simone Weil Quotes - Page 2

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• Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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  Prayer, Attention

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.117, Psychology Press

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• It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

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  Wish, Faults, Made

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.66, Psychology Press

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• If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

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  Money, Men, Want

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• Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

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  Silence, Cry, Indifferent

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• Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

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  Humility, Compassion, Oneself

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• Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

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  Beautiful, Sky

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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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• Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

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  Believe, History, Matter

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• The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.43, Routledge

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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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• Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

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  Emptiness, Sin

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

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  Forgiveness, Imagine, Knows

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

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• There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

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  Real, Lying, Giving

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

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• Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

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  Happiness, Real, Evil

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.70, Psychology Press

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• It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

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  Imagine, Christ, Easier

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.89, Psychology Press

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• The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

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  Truth, Dwelling, Long

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Space

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.10, Psychology Press

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• The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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  Time, Past, Crime

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.48, Routledge

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Equality, Men

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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• The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

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  Real, Civilization, Intellectual

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.156, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

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  World, Definitions, Study

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.258, Routledge

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• It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

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  Grace, Void, Form

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• God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

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  Wealth, Rich, Mercy

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.24, Routledge

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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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