Quotes by : Simone Weil

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely....

Herein is a capital truth. It is not the natural capacity, the congenital gift, nor is it the effort,....

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

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

If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former.....

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance....

When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,”....