Simone Weil Quotes

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• Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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  Kindness, Caring, Generosity

  Letter to Joë Bousquet on April 13, 1942. "Correspondance", published by Editions l'Age d'Homme in Lausanne, p. 18, 1982.

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• We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

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  Christian, Religious, Adversity

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• Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

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  Spiritual, Humility, Acceptance

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• Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

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  Pain, Hands, Suffering

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• The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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  Time, Past, Crime

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.48, Routledge

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• There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

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  Beauty, Heart, Two

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• Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

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  Crush, Sides, Oppression

  Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.139, Cambridge University 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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• The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

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  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God”

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• Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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  Beautiful, Eternity, Mark

  Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.197, Cambridge University Press

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• Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

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  Love You, Self, Existence

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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  Soul, Important, Needs

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.43, Routledge

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• The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

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  Pride, Intelligent, Men

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

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  Dream, Real, Joy

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

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• Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

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  Brother, Betrayal, Military

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• Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

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  Doubt, Trying, Tyranny

  Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

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• It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

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  Grace, Void, Form

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• Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

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  Thank You, Gratitude, Joy

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.63, Psychology Press

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• Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

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  Wisdom, Fun, Affliction

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.26, Psychology Press

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

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  Forgiveness, Imagine, Knows

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.9, Psychology Press

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• Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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  Prayer, Attention

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

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• Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

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  Humility, Compassion, Oneself

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• 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.

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  Reason, Should, God's Love

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

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  Nature, Light, Sky

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• Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

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  Single, Solitude, Affection

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.67, Psychology Press

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