Weil, Simone

"Art at its truest expresses what cannot be said in words."

"The modern world has mistaken accumulation for abundance."

"In silence, we learn the language God speaks."

"To work justly is to honor both the maker and the made."

"The mind oppressed by material necessity cannot think freely."

"We know a person only when we have suffered alongside them."

"The greatest obstacle to wisdom is the certainty of our knowledge."

"Adventure of the spirit is only possible when we release the ego's grip."

"Motivation rooted in fear creates only temporary change."

"The health of the soul depends on nourishment from beauty and truth."

"The soul's natural language is silence, but we live in a world of noise."

"Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer."

"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."

"Imagination is not the same as creativity; one is the capacity to see, the other is the power to make."

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."

"The only way to be truly alive is to suffer."

"Affliction is the price of attention."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow beings, and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel all their joys and sorrows."

"The human condition is defined by the tension between desire and limitation."

"Pure work of the intelligence is rare and comes by grace."

"Food is sacred. A meal without prayer is like a day without the sun."

"If we knew how to listen to trees, they would teach us truth."

"The capacity to receive is a great power."

"A man cannot be permanently and not very severely deranged by the sudden loss of the human factor in his working life."

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."

"Obedience is not the first thing; attention is."

"Art is the effort to make visible what is invisible."

"Gravity and grace are the two fundamental forces of the universe."

"The absence of a name is more powerful than the presence of one."

"Perfection is not just about virtue; it is about the total ordering of the soul."