Simone Weil — "The whole of history is nothing but the history of the struggle of man against n…"

"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."

"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."

"To be a Christian is to be a slave."

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

"The true function of art is to prepare us for suffering."