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Danh ngôn của Simone Weil (Sứ mệnh: 7)

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Humility is attentive patience.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
I can, therefore I am.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.