Simone Weil

The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation through dwelling a long time…

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are…

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who…

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal…

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence…

The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates…

I can, therefore I am…

The future is made of the same stuff as the present…

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything…

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to…

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

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation…

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite…

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends…

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