In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone WeilThe supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
Simone WeilWe must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.
Simone WeilOne could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their particular science: there is none who is really competent as regards sciences other than his own. As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only drudges doing scientific work.
Simone Weil