Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
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

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
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