Quotes By Author: Simone Weil

“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. ”

“We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.”

“There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.”

“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”

“At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space of partial truth, which may be larger or smaller, without ever being able so much as to glance at what is outside.”