The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
Simone WeilAll the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.
Simone WeilThe intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone WeilWhoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.
Simone WeilWhether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatusโthe bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.
Simone Weil