“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”

— Simone Weil, "Void and Compensation", in Gravity and Grace (1947)

About Simone Weil

1909 – 1943

French philosopher and political activist.

“The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.”

“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.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

“Become who you are.”

“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.”

“For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter of the Eternal's language; on earth it is called Forgiveness!”