One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.
Simone WeilIn reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
Simone WeilGod is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
Simone WeilEvery being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
Simone WeilWhen a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Simone Weilscience has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.
Simone Weil