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Simone Weil on Love

1909–1943 France

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One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Last Notebook (1942)

If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love.

Gravity and Grace (1972)

Love is not consolation, it is light.

Simone Weil (1954)

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.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

To love our neighbour as ourselves does not mean that we should love all people equally, for I do not have an equal love for all the modes of existence of myself. Nor does it mean that we should never make them suffer, for I do not refuse to make myself suffer.

Gravity and Grace (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Simone Weil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.