Simone Weil Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

  Simone Weil

  Meditation, Desire, Awareness

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.22, Psychology Press

• No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Desire, Movement

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

• It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

  Simone Weil

  Truth, Desire, Impossible

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

• Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

  Simone Weil

  Simple, Roots, Effort

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.44, Routledge

• 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.

  Simone Weil

  Order, Evil, Desire

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

• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Believe, Past

• In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

  Simone Weil

  Atheist, Believe, Order

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.137, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• 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.

  Simone Weil

  Perfect, Desire, World

• The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Rights, Two

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.86, Psychology Press

• We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.

  Simone Weil

  Desire, May, Immortality

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.15, Psychology Press

• The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

  Simone Weil

  Desire, Treasure, Misers

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.15, Psychology Press

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