Philosophy Quote by Simone Weil — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.”

“All sins are attempts to fill voids." because we cannot stand the God-shaped hole inside or us and we try stuffing it full of all sorts of things, but only God may fill it.”

“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”

“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”

“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”

“There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.”

“Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.”

“The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.”

“Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.”

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

“To know and have it all is about individuality because each one has the right not to live under the mercy of anyone with more power. So, for freedom and protection, one desires to know and have it all, but the questions remain.”