Simone Weil Quotes About Humility

Quotes about: Humility

• Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Compassion, Oneself

• 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.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Humility, Acceptance

• Humility is attentive patience.

  Simone Weil

  Patience, Humble, Humility

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.111, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Real

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Power, Order

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.128, Psychology Press

• One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Rights, Talking

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.73, Routledge

• Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Acceptance, Knowing

  "Concerning the Our Father". "Waiting on God". Book by Simone Weil, Routledge & Kegan Paul edition, p. 153, 1972.

• Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Compassion, Oneself

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

• There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Pride, Exercise

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.365, Routledge

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