5 Simone Weil Quotes on Life

Simone Weil quotes on life

26. It is because of my wretchedness that I am 'I.' It is on account of the wretchedness of the universe that, in a sense, God is 'I' (that is to say a person). [p.83]

29. By a strange mystery - which is connected with the power of the social element - a profession can confer on quite ordinary men in their exercise of it, virtues which, if they were extended to all circumstances of life, would make of them heroes or saints. [p.124]

47. We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do. [p.260]

49. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence. [p.260]

53. Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death. [p.277]