Simone Weil Quotes

"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty."
-Simone Weil in Evil 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."
-Simone Weil in Communication quotes.

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

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

"What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict."
-Simone Weil

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

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

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

"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

"Pain is the root of knowledge."
-Simone Weil in Pain quotes.

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

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