Simone Weil
  • The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

  • Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

  • A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

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

  • Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.