Simone Weil Quotes

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Simone Weil

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Simone Weil

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through.

Simone Weil

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

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

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Simone Weil

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

Simone Weil

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.

Simone Weil