Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Simone WeilWho were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Simone WeilIn the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Simone WeilThe human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.
Simone Weil