Simone Weil Quotes
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
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.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
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.Simone Weil
All sins are attempts to fill voids.Simone Weil
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
