Simone Weil Quotes

I can, therefore I am.
Simone Weil

Motivational, Therefore

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

Imagination, Life, Real

Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil

Patience, Humility, Attentive

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Giving, Attention, Unhappy

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Struggle, Serenity, Against

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Two, Friends, Far

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

Others, Act, Ourselves

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Important, Human, Soul

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil

Proud, Large, Condemned

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
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Great, Someone, Reality

All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Sins, Fill, Attempts

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil

Beauty, Promises, Gives

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Simone Weil

Time, Truth, Long

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Simone Weil

God, Science, Bring

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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Lie, Impossible, Door

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil

Knowledge, Pain, Evil

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Simone Weil

Attention, Highest, Fullest

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
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Cause, Conflict, Likely

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Simone Weil

Human, Him, Chance

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
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Life, Friendship, Great

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil

Men, Fear, Blame

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Simone Weil

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil

Love, God, Nothing

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
Simone Weil

Lie, Doubt, Soul

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

Door, Public, Tyranny

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 3, 1909

Died: August 24, 1943

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