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Simone Weil Quotes about Soul

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

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

Soul, Important, Needs

Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.43, Routledge

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Prayer, Giving, Soul

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

Soul, Transformation, Virtue

Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.37, Routledge

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.

Love, Fall, Soul

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.46, Routledge

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

Men, Soul, Suffering

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.221, Wipf and Stock Publishers

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Faith, Lying, Soul

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.81, Routledge

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

Soul, Violence, Eternity

Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.134, U of Nebraska Press

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

Evil, Boredom, Soul

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.226, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Distance is the soul of beauty.

Distance, Soul

Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.615, Routledge

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

Punishment, Soul, Suffering

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.226, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.

Soul, Suffering, Facts

Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.

Soul, Humans, Human Beings

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.66, Psychology Press

If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul.

Light, Knowing, Soul

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.

Prayer, Heart, Soul

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

Opposites, Soul, Virtue

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.102, Psychology Press

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

Punishment, Soul, Needs

Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.19, Routledge

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