Simone Weil

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

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.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.