Quotes by Weil, Simone

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. >>

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. >>

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from >>

Quotations about Punishment

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. >>

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as t >>

And where the offence is, let the great axe fall. >>

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

Weil, Simone