Simone Weil Quotes - Page 6

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• The world is God's language to us.

  Simone Weil

  God, World, Language

  Simone Weil, Arthur Wills (1956). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.480, Psychology Press

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• The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

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  Running, Real, Teaching

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.34, Routledge

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• We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

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  Renounce

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.34, Psychology Press

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• You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

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  Lost Everything, Lost, Born

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.177, Psychology Press

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• The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

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  Religion, Essentials, Knows

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• The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

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  Creation, Imitation, Apprehension

  Simone Weil, Arthur Wills (1956). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.480, Psychology Press

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• Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

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  Science, Intellectual, Principles

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

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• The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.

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  Powerful, Believe, Men

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

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  Imagination, Suffering, Ugly

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.199, U of Nebraska Press

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• Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

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  Loan, Exception, Values

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.31, Psychology Press

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

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  Stars, Giving, Tree

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

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• The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

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  Rights, Relation, Duty

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.2, Routledge

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• As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

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  Encouragement, Punishment, Killers

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.174, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

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  Art, Works Of Art

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.206, Routledge

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• It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.

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  Spiritual, Men, Order

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.166, Psychology Press

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

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  Life, Dominion, Force

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

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• I can, therefore I am.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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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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• If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

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  Order, Evil, Desire

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.74, Psychology Press

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

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  Pharisees, Beast, Obedience

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.169, Psychology Press

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• Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

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  Sin, Humans, Wretchedness

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

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  Humility, Compassion, Oneself

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.104, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

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  Trying, Attention, Faults

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.116, Psychology Press

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• Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

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  Modern Life, Action, Life Is

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.153, Psychology Press

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• We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

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  Heaven, Steps, Crosses

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.45, Routledge

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