It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
Simone WeilModern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.
Simone WeilThose who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
Simone WeilThere can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
Simone Weil