Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.
Simone WeilForce is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Simone WeilWe possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
Simone WeilReal genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil