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Quotes from Simone Weil : An Anthology — Simone Weil

1909–1943 France

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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it — neither higher nor lower.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

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

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

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.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

The eulogies of my intelligence are positively intended to evade the question "Is what she says true?"

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

The soul was not made to dwell in a thing; and when forced to it, there is no part of that soul but suffers violence.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

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

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

In this so-called age of technicians, the only battles we know how to fight are battles against windmills.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

The collective is the object of all idolatry, this it is which chains us to the earth.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

The use of expressions like "to the extent that" is beyond our intellectual capacity.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

The state of conformity is an imitation of grace.

Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

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