Simone Weil Quotes - Page 8

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• There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

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  Effort, Salvation, Easiness

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• The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

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  Doctors, Saint, Needs

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.29, Routledge

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• The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

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  Witty, Future, Stuff

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.299, Routledge

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• Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

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  Soul, Violence, Eternity

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.134, U of Nebraska Press

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• Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

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  Firsts, Indirect, Method

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

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• A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

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  Art, Work, Perfect

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• Distance is the soul of beauty.

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  Distance, Soul

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.615, Routledge

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• 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.

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  Sacrifice, Balance, Looks

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• 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.

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  Light, Needs, Bread

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.180, Psychology Press

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• He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

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  Absence, Feels

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• The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

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  Country, Power, Men

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• The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

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  Order, Two, Humanity

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

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  God, Forgiving, Crime

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• To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

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  Lying, Ideas, Evil

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• I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

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  Play, Barbarism, Characteristics

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.143, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

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  Choices, World, Worship

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.138, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

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  Real, Paradise, Hell

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

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  God, Views, Giving

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• In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

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  Atheist, Believe, Order

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.137, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

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  Prayer, Heart, Attentiveness

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• We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

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  Waiting, Precious Gifts

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.35, Routledge

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• Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

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  Real, Imagination, Christian Love

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

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• All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

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  Fighting, Prejudice, Missions

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.55, Psychology Press

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• Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.

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  Taken, Humanity, Individual

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.154, Psychology Press

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• Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

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  Moving, Roots, Uprooting

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