Simone Weil Is Quotations

Love is not consolation, it is light.

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

Truth is one, but error is manifold.