To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
Simone WeilOf two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
Simone WeilContradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
Simone WeilAs soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil