Simone Weil

The whole of history is nothing but the history of the struggle of man against necessity.

Evil is the root of all good.

The greatest good is to do nothing.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person who is crushed who feels it.

The love of God is the only pure motive.

Oppression that is not total creates the possibility of revolt.

All sins are an attempt to fill an emptiness.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.

God is not present in anything that can be grasped.

To love God through the misery of the world is a greater miracle than to love God through the beauty of the world.

The greatest joy of man is to go out to meet the unknown.

The beautiful is the sensible form of the good.

To be a Christian is to be a slave.

The soul's love of God is a participation in the love by which God loves Himself.

Every man who has tasted freedom will forever be a rebel.

The truest way to be happy is to love God.

The only way to be saved is to accept suffering.

To be perfectly pure is to be perfectly empty.

Evil is the absence of good.

The love of neighbor, being made of the same stuff as the love of God, is supernatural.