We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Simone WeilLove of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Simone WeilStichwörter: love suffering gratitude
There are four evidences of divine mercy here below. The favors of God to beings capable of contemplation (these states exist and form part of their experience as creatures). The radiance of these beings, and their compassion, which is the divine compassion in them. The beauty of the world. The fourth evidence is the complete absence of mercy here below.
Simone WeilAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Simone WeilAt the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space of partial truth, which may be larger or smaller, without ever being able so much as to glance at what is outside.
Simone WeilStichwörter: philosophy language simone-weil
Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
Simone WeilAbsolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Simone WeilThe extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.
Simone WeilIf the error is thrust deeply enough into the soul, man cannot but succumb to it.
Simone WeilThe national interest cannot be defined as a common interest of the industrial, commercial, and financial companies of a country, because there is no such common interest; nor can it be defined as the life, liberty, and well-being of the citizens, because they are continually being adjured to sacrifice their well-being, their liberty, and their lives to the national interest. In the end a study of modern history leads to the conclusion that the national interest of every State consists in its capacity to make war.
Simone WeilStichwörter: war modern-state national-interest
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