Quotes by Weil, Simone

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Ou >>

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus >>

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. >>

Quotations about Liberty

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise tit >>

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. >>

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwell >>

It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Weil, Simone