Simone Weil Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”

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

“Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.”

“It 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.”

“Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.”

“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”

“We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.”

“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”

“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.”

“Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.”