Quote

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

Simone Weil

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Simone Weil
Age: 34 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 3
Died: 1943
Died: August 24
Autobiographer
Diarist
French Resistance Fighter
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Trade Unionist
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Simone Adolphine Weil
Facts
Greatness
Doe
Seek
Christianity
Lies
Suffering
Supernatural
Lying
Remedy
Fact
Extreme
Use
Extremes

More quotes by Simone Weil

Image
The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.
Simone Weil
Image
Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
Simone Weil
Image
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
Simone Weil
Image
Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
Simone Weil
Image
One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.
Simone Weil
Image
The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil
Image
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Simone Weil
Image
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
Simone Weil
Image
If you say to someone who has ears to hear: What you are doing to me is not just, you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, I have the right... or you have no right to... They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.
Simone Weil
Image
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
Simone Weil
Image
In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
Simone Weil
Image
the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.
Simone Weil
Image
Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
Simone Weil
Image
Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
Simone Weil
Image
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the I from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
Simone Weil
Image
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
Simone Weil
Image
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
Simone Weil
Image
Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
Simone Weil
Image
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.
Simone Weil
Image
The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.
Simone Weil