Quotes by Simone Weil

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.