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.

Simone Weil

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Simone Weil

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

Simone Weil

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Simone Weil

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Simone Weil

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through

Simone Weil