Weil, Simone

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"Science is the effort of the mind to understand nature's necessity."

"Reading is a listening with the whole soul."

"Power is always acquired by force or fraud."

"The human condition is characterized by a sense of impermanence."

"Necessity binds the will when it binds reality."

"The deepest need of the soul is supernatural love."

"History is a graveyard of possibilities."

"We must learn to see without eyes and hear without ears."

"The factory worker is treated as a mere tool of production."

"True courage consists in acknowledging our powerlessness."

"Music is the expression of the inexpressible."

"The soul requires conditions for its growth like a plant requires soil."

"War destroys the human capacity for thinking."

"We are all seeking a light that has never abandoned us."

"The pursuit of happiness destroys happiness itself."

"Indifference is the first step toward spiritual death."

"The mind must be empty before it can truly receive."

"Industrial civilization has wounded the soul of humanity."

"Gratitude is the recognition of grace in existence."

"The impossible is simply what we have not yet learned."

"Every authentic work of art contains a fragment of truth."

"The soul must be broken and reformed to achieve unity with God."

"We mistake speed for progress."

"Attention is a rare and precious faculty in modern life."

"The experience of hunger teaches us about justice."

"Supernatural love has no reward but itself."

"The political order must be based on truth, not convenience."

"Perfectionism is the desire to reduce confusion to clarity."

"The soul's distance from God is measured in misconceptions."