Simone Weil Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Real, Carpe Diem

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.56, Psychology Press

• Love is not consolation, it is light.

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  Love, Life, Light

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.14, Psychology Press

• One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

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  Life, Happiness, Play

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.124, Psychology Press

• Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

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  Life, Order, Doe

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

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  Life, War, Attention And Love

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• 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.

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  Life, Men, Giving

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

• Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

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  Life, Dominion, Force

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

• One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Knowing, Atheism

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.84, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Perfect, Parables

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