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Quotes by Simone Weil
- The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
- The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
- The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
- The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
- The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
- The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
- The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
- The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
- There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
- To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
- To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
- To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
- Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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