If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Simone Weil

I can, therefore I am.
Simone Weil

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Simone Weil

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

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Simone Weil

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