Simone Weil Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• 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

• Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

  Simone Weil

  Reality, Attachment, Want

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

• Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Reality, Attachment

• The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Reality, Aggravation

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.129, Psychology Press

• Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

  Simone Weil

  Book, Reality, Sound

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.343, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• 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

• The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Mind, Tests

• Joy is being fully aware of reality.

  Simone Weil

  Reality, Joy

• 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 test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

  Simone Weil

  Dream, Real, Joy

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

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