Quote

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

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
Hurt
Tries
Seeing
Consists
Justice
Define
Often
Harm
Inwardly
Done
Whenever
Inflicted
Trying
Cry
Infallible
Men
Compassion
Cries
Violence
Mistaken

More quotes by Simone Weil

Image
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
Simone Weil
Image
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
Simone Weil
Image
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil
Image
Renunciation is submission to time.
Simone Weil
Image
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
Simone Weil
Image
We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
Simone Weil
Image
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
Simone Weil
Image
Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
Simone Weil
Image
The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
Simone Weil
Image
It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.
Simone Weil
Image
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude for he is a thinking creature.
Simone Weil
Image
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
Simone Weil
Image
What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
Simone Weil
Image
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.
Simone Weil
Image
Necessity is God's veil.
Simone Weil
Image
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil
Image
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone Weil
Image
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
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
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Simone Weil