Simone Weil

“כסף, מיכון, אלגברה; שלוש מפלצות הציוויליזציה של ימינו.”

“אין אנו בעליו של דבר בעולם הזה, כי המקרה יכול לשלול מאתנו את הכול.”

“The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.”

“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.”

“The future is made of the same stuff as the present.”

“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”

“An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.”

“Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.”

“The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.”

“It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it has not lowered us, but has revealed our true level.”

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

“It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.”

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”

“A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.”

“Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.”

“When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.”

“Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.”

“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”

“I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.”