Quotes by Simone Weil

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Humility is attentive patience.

I can, therefore I am.

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

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

The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.