Logo
Quote by Simone Weil
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not.

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

Other quotes by Simone Weil

What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil

Category:
War
Author
Simone Weil
Read Quote

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. – Simone Weil

Category:
God
Author
Simone Weil
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
alone
category

The writer is all alone. – V. S. Naipaul

Category:
alone

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called Rule Of The Bone. I didnt do a very good job. I didnt really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. – Paul Thomas Anderson

Category:
alone

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. Ive seen statistics that are just staggering. – Michael Zaslow

Category:
alone

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her peoples rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. – Leonard Peltier

Category:
alone

Random Quotes

Girls shouldnt worry about being the equal of men in the business world. – Marilyn Monroe

Category:
Business

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. . . . Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late. – Antonio Gramsci

Category:
Personality

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. – Mark Twain

Category:
Integrity

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And theres almost a sense of entitlement to that. – J. J. Abrams

Category:
Age