Famous Simone Weil Quotes
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
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
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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
