The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.Simone Weil
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.Simone Weil
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.Simone Weil
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.Simone Weil
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.Simone Weil
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.Simone Weil
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.Simone Weil
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.F. Scott Fitzgerald
