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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. - Simone Weil Quotes

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

French Philosopher

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard. - Simone Weil Quotes

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either - Simone Weil Quotes

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature. - Simone Weil Quotes

It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine. - Simone Weil Quotes

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

French Philosopher

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. - Simone Weil Quotes

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

French Philosopher

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. - Simone Weil Quotes

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

French Philosopher History

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

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

Humility is attentive patience. - Simone Weil Quotes

Humility is attentive patience.

French Philosopher Humility

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. - Simone Weil Quotes

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Art French Philosopher

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. - Simone Weil Quotes

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

French Philosopher Hell

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 Quotes

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.

French Philosopher

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. - Simone Weil Quotes

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Beauty French Philosopher

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. - Simone Weil Quotes

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

French Philosopher

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty - Simone Weil Quotes

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

Duty

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. - Simone Weil Quotes

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

French Philosopher Genius

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. - Simone Weil Quotes

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

Joy

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

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

French Philosopher God

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just. - Simone Weil Quotes

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. - Simone Weil Quotes

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

French Philosopher

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him,

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

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. - Simone Weil Quotes

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

Contradiction French Philosopher

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence. - Simone Weil Quotes

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.

Intelligence Mathematics

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Simone Weil Quotes

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Affliction French Philosopher

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 Quotes

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.

French Philosopher Germany

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. - Simone Weil Quotes

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached - Simone Weil Quotes

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

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 Quotes

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.

Communication French Philosopher

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 Quotes

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.

French Philosopher Hunger

Pain is the root of knowledge - Simone Weil Quotes

Pain is the root of knowledge

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

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

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. - Simone Weil Quotes

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.

French Philosopher Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

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

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

French Philosopher

All sins are attempts to fill voids. - Simone Weil Quotes

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

French Philosopher Sin

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real - Simone Weil Quotes

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real

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

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

Charity French Philosopher

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

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

French Philosopher

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 Quotes

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

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. - Simone Weil Quotes

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

French Philosopher

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. - Simone Weil Quotes

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

French Philosopher Hatred

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him. - Simone Weil Quotes

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

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 Quotes

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.

French Philosopher Morality

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. - Simone Weil Quotes

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

French Philosopher

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. - Simone Weil Quotes

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

French Philosopher

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors - Simone Weil Quotes

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth. - Simone Weil Quotes

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. - Simone Weil Quotes

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

French Philosopher

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again - Simone Weil Quotes

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

Enlightenment Man

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. - Simone Weil Quotes

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

Faith French Philosopher

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. - Simone Weil Quotes

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

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