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• Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

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  Light, Two, Gravity

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

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  Sympathy, Thinking, Compassion

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

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• When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

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  Hurt, Pain, Tired

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• In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

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  Men, Evil, Effort

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 168, 1968.

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• All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

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  Perfect, Desire, World

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• In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

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  Church, Degenerates, Belief

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.284, Routledge

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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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• Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

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  Atheist, Objectivity, Majority

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

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• War is the supreme form of prestige.

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  War, Prestige, Form

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.25, Routledge

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• Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

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  Believe, Murderer, Officials

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• The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

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  Opposites, Transcendental, Contradictory

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• The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

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  Tuberculosis, Poison, Disease

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

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• prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.

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  Prayer, Heart, Soul

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

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• Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

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  Life, Perfect, Parables

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• The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

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  Ideas, Firsts, Weakness

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

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• Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.

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  Soul, Suffering, Facts

  Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

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• On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

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  Pain, Degrees, World

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.22, Routledge

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• A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

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  Fake People, Doctrine, Purpose

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• The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

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  Justice, Diversity, Stronger

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.50, Routledge

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• The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

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  Real, Mind, Tests

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• What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

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  Country, Peace, War

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• There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

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  Humility, Pride, Exercise

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.365, Routledge

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• Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

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  Doe, Charity, Humans

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.77, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.19, Routledge

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• In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

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  Belief, Divine, Certainty

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.80, Routledge

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