Simone Weil

22 quotes

"In this so-called age of technicians, the only battles we know how to fight are battles against windmills."

Simone Weil

"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."

Simone Weil

"Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money."

Simone Weil

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

Simone Weil

"An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God."

Simone Weil

"In this so-called age of technicians, the only battles we know how to fight are battles against windmills."

Simone Weil

"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?"

Simone Weil

"An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God."

Simone Weil

"Pain is the root of knowledge."

Simone Weil

"What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict."

Simone Weil

"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves."

Simone Weil

"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?"

Simone Weil

"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves."

Simone Weil

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

Simone Weil

"What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict."

Simone Weil

"Pain is the root of knowledge."

Simone Weil

"In this so-called age of technicians, the only battles we know how to fight are battles against windmills."

Simone Weil

"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."

Simone Weil

"An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God."

Simone Weil

"In this so-called age of technicians, the only battles we know how to fight are battles against windmills."

Simone Weil

"Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money."

Simone Weil

"An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God."

Simone Weil