Quotes By Simone Weil
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
Simone Weil
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Simone Weil
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Simone Weil
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Simone Weil
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Simone Weil
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone Weil
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Simone Weil
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
Simone Weil
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Simone Weil