Simone Weil Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.”

“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.”

“We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.”

“Humility is attentive patience.”

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

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

“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.”

“Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.”

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