The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
Simone WeilAcademic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
Simone WeilOnly he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
Simone WeilIt may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.
Simone Weil