Quotes by Weil, Simone

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on >>

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation o >>

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue >>

Quotations about Evil

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart! >>

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. >>

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a >>

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone