Simone Weil Doe Quotations

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

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

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

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.