Simone Weil

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

Human thought is so made that the desire for truth is more often satisfied by the contemplation of works of art than by the search for truth itself.

The great error of the French Revolution was to believe that one could create a good society by decree.

Every time that a man has, from a pure motive, renounced a possession, a pleasure, a satisfaction, a compensation, he has increased the quantity of being in the universe.

The capacity to give one’s attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it.

To suffer for God is not a duty, but a privilege.

The soul's love of God is a love of justice.

The most important movement is the movement from the outside in, from the periphery to the center, from the surface to the depth.

The intelligence can only be led by desire. For there to be desire, there must be pleasure. Pleasure is given by the good.

One of the most important tasks of Christianity is to prepare for the coming of a new type of holiness.

The only way to be happy is to live for others.

The love of God is not a consolation, but a light.

The only way to be free is to accept the necessity of our own death.

The soul is not a thing, but a relation.

To love God is to love justice.

The world is a machine for grinding man's soul.