A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. Simone Weil Read Quote
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. Simone Weil Read Quote
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. Simone Weil Read Quote
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. Simone Weil Read Quote
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. Simone Weil Read Quote
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. Simone Weil Read Quote
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. Simone Weil Read Quote
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. Simone Weil Read Quote
