First and last notebooks Quotes

“Imagine that the devil is in the process of buying the soul of some poor afflicted being, and that someone, taking pity on the one afflicted, were to intervene in the debate and say to the devil: "it is really shameful for you to offer only this price; the thing is worth at least twice that."

This sinister farce is what is being played out in the workers' movement by the syndicates, parties, and intellectuals of the left.”
― Simone Weil, First and last notebooks

“Love consents to everything and commands only those who consent to it. Love is abdication. God is abdication.”
― Simone Weil, First and last notebooks

“You could not have wished to be born at a better time than this, when everything is lost.”
― Simone Weil, First and last notebooks

“Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.”
― Simone Weil, First and last notebooks