Love is not consolation, it is light. Simone Weil
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. Simone Weil
Humility is attentive patience. Simone Weil
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. Simone Weil
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. Simone Weil
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. Simone Weil
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. Simone Weil
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. Simone Weil
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men’s inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth. Simone Weil
Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. Simone Weil