Simone Weil Quotes & Quotations

Simone Weil Quotes

» Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

» Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

» To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

» The real stumbling-block of totalitarian rTgimes 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.

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

» I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

» In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

» If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

» 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.

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

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