Quote

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

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
Recognized
Innocence
Hope

More quotes by Simone Weil

Image
Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
Simone Weil
Image
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
Simone Weil
Image
Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.
Simone Weil
Image
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
Simone Weil
Image
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .
Simone Weil
Image
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
Simone Weil
Image
An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.
Simone Weil
Image
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Simone Weil
Image
When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
Simone Weil
Image
School children and students who love God should never say: For my part I like mathematics I like French I like Greek. They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.
Simone Weil
Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Simone Weil
Image
Truth is one, but error is manifold.
Simone Weil
Image
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.
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
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil
Image
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
Image
Distance is the soul of beauty.
Simone Weil
Image
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
Simone Weil
Image
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
Simone Weil
Image
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
Simone Weil