The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.
Simone WeilMost works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone WeilAt the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done
Simone WeilFriendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.
Simone WeilContradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
Simone WeilIn this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.
Simone Weil