Simone Weil Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

  Simone Weil

  Happiness, Real, Evil

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.70, Psychology Press

• Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Way

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

  Simone Weil

  Pain, Roots, Evil

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.69, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Boredom, Soul

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.226, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

  Simone Weil

  Heart, Evil, Teeth

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.59, Routledge

• Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Suffering, Together

  Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

• Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

  Simone Weil

  Tyrants, Evil, Politics

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.71, Psychology Press

• Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Infinity, Hell

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

• To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Ideas, Evil

• In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Reality, Evil

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

• A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Church, Mixtures

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

• In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Evil, Effort

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 168, 1968.

• There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Morality, Aliens

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 169, 1968.

• When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Excellence, Literature

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

• 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

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