01UndatedCharity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.Simone Weil / quote ↗
02UndatedA hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.Simone Weil / quote ↗
03UndatedThe intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.Simone Weil / quote ↗
06UndatedToday Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.Simone Weil / quote ↗
07UndatedThose who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.Simone Weil / quote ↗
08UndatedThe notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds, the effective exercise of a right springing not from the individual who possesses it, but from other men who consider themselves as being under a certain obligation towards him. Recognition of an obligation makes it effectual. An obligation which goes unrecognized by anybody loses none of the full force of its existence. A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much. It makes nonsense to say that men have, on the one hand, rights, and on the other hand, obligations. Such words only express differences in point of view. The actual relationship between the two is as between object and subject. A man, considered in isolation, only has duties, amongst which are certain duties towards himself. A man left alone in the universe would have no rights whatever, but he would have obligations.Simone Weil / quote ↗
09UndatedMore than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.Simone Weil / quote ↗
10UndatedTwo 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 / quote ↗
12UndatedEquality 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 / quote ↗
13UndatedHumanism 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 / quote ↗
14UndatedThe role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.Simone Weil / quote ↗
16UndatedImagination 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 / quote ↗
17UndatedIt 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 / quote ↗
19UndatedIt is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.Simone Weil / quote ↗
21UndatedAs 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 / quote ↗
22UndatedAttachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.Simone Weil / quote ↗
24UndatedImagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.Simone Weil / quote ↗
