"In intimacy she was a charming and lively companion; she knew how to joke without bad taste and could be ironical without unkindness." — Gustave Thibon on Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, Introduction
“Physical labour may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.” — Simone Weil on physical labour, the Power of Words
“(...) [I]t is desirable that the majority of people should own their house and a little piece of land round it, and, whenever not technically impossible, the tools of their trade.” — Simone Weil on private property, the Power of Words
Methodical action, in every sphere, does not mean taking measures at the moment when they will be effective; it means choosing the moment when they are possible, in anticipation of the one when they will be effective. — Simone Weil, A Note on Social Democracy in Selected Essays 1934-1943
“Real goodness is not opposed to evil. It transcends it and effaces it.” —Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace