Simone Weil Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

  Simone Weil

  Prayer, Giving, Soul

• There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Lying, Giving

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

• Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

  Simone Weil

  Beauty, Pretty Girl, Giving

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.29, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.

  Simone Weil

  Country, War, Giving

  "The Power of Words (1937)". "Selected Essays 1934-1943". Book y Simone Weil, translated by Richard Rees, p. 224, 1957.

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

  Simone Weil

  Stars, Giving, Tree

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

• Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Giving, Debt

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

• The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

  Simone Weil

  Sympathy, Thinking, Compassion

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

• In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

  Simone Weil

  God, Views, Giving

• He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Men, Giving

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

• Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

  Simone Weil

  Inspiration, People, Giving

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

• One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.

  Simone Weil

  Reality, Men, Thinking

• Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, Giving, Doe

• Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Circles

  Simone Weil (2002). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.286, Psychology Press

• To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

  Simone Weil

  Women, Hero, Order

• The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

  Simone Weil

  Giving, Evolution, Oppression

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.13, Routledge

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