Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. – Simone Weil
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. – Simone Weil
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. – Simone Weil
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. – Simone Weil
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. – Simone Weil
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. – Simone Weil