Simone Weil/Quotes

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

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

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

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

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.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

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

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.