Simone Weil Beautiful Quotations

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.