Simone Weil Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.”

“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.”

“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”

“Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.”

“There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.”

“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.”

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

“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.”

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

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