Simone Weil

Frases de Simone Weil

• “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

• “It is not by the way a man speaks of God, but by the way he speaks of the things of this world that one can best discern if his soul has remained in the fire of God's love.”

• “Real liberty is not defined by a relationship between desire and satisfaction, but by a relationship between thought and action.”

• “Beauty is the only end here below; art is, therefore, what is most real.”

• “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”

• “Imagination fills the voids, but faith is the acceptance of the void.”

• “Two prisoners whose cells are adjoining communicate by tapping on the wall. The wall is what separates them, but it is also what allows them to communicate. It is the same between us and God.”

• “Evil is to love what mystery is to intelligence.”

• “The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest it should persuade itself by a lie that it is not hungry.”

• “To be just, one must be naked.”

• “To love our neighbor as ourselves does not mean that we should love him as much as we love ourselves, but that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbor.”

• “Man has to make a constant effort to become someone.”

• “Absolutely pure attention is prayer.”

• “Where thought is lacking, freedom is lacking.”

• “Affliction is a device to pulverize the soul.”

• “Obedience is a vital need of the soul.”

• “Everything that is purely beautiful is a place of God's presence.”

• “Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers who, in turn, will manufacture more teachers.”

• “Decreation: to pass from the created to the uncreated.”

• “The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving insoluble problems in their insolubility.”

• “Vulnerability is a mark of existence.”

• “Love is an orientation and not a state of the soul.”