Simone Weil Quotes

“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”
― Simone Weil, Simone Weil: An Anthology

“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”
― Simone Weil, Simone Weil: An Anthology

“Cut away ruthlessly everything that is imaginary in your feelings.”
― Simone Weil, Simone Weil: An Anthology

“Existence is not an end in itself but merely the framework upon which all good, both real and imagined, may be built.”
― Simone Weil, Simone Weil: An Anthology

“Both the destruction and the preservation of capitalism are meaningless slogans, but these slogans are supported by real organizations. Corresponding to each empty abstraction there is an actual human group, and any abstraction of which this is not true remains harmless.”
― simone weil, Simone Weil: An Anthology