Simone Weil Quotes
1909 – 1943
French philosopher and political activist.
26 quotesAbout Simone Weil on Wikipedia
“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
“Every atheist is an idolater — unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect.”
“Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science.”
“Prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.”
“What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.”
“A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror.”
“Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.”
“If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error.”
“Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.”
“A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.”
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.”
“We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.”
“It is not in a person's nature to desire what he already has.”
“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”
