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• It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

  Simone Weil

  God, Matter, Impossible

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.214, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

  Simone Weil

  Country, Power, Men

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• Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

  Simone Weil

  Light, Two, Gravity

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

  Simone Weil

  Doctors, Saint, Needs

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.29, Routledge

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• The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

  Simone Weil

  Witty, Future, Stuff

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.299, Routledge

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• 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

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  Heart, Evil, Teeth

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

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• Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Two, Deny

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.151, Routledge

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• Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Violence, Eternity

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.134, U of Nebraska Press

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• To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

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  Solitude, Wish, Virtue

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

  Simone Weil

  Philosophical, Metaphor, Universe

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.98, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

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  Choices, World, Worship

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.138, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

  Simone Weil

  Waiting, Precious Gifts

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.35, Routledge

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• 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.

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• 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

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• The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.

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  Struggle, Innovation, Opponents

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.166, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

  Simone Weil

  Church, Degenerates, Belief

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.284, Routledge

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• Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

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  Sacrifice, Balance, Looks

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• All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

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  Perfect, Desire, World

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• Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

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  Believe, Murderer, Officials

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• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

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  Real, Believe, Past

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• I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

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  Play, Barbarism, Characteristics

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.143, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

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  Moving, Roots, Uprooting

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• Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith ; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.

  Simone Weil

  Faith, Atheist, Atheism

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.238, Routledge

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• If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

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  God, Forgiving, Crime

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• 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.

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  Sympathy, Thinking, Compassion

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

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