An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone WeilThe speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
Simone WeilWorkers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.
Simone WeilJust as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.
Simone Weil