Top 79 Quotes by Simone Weil

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

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.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.