The Great Simone Weil Socks

Description: The great Simone Weil

Description: Simone Weil quote: Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Description: Simone Weil quote: One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Description: Simone Weil quote: There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

Description: Simone Weil quote: The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or colour, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

Description: Simone Weil quote: The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

Description: Simone Weil quote: “Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.”

Description: Simone Weil quote: At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being.

Description: Simone Weil quote: If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error. If it has recognized the fact, even for the tenth of a second, and then quickly forgotten it in order to avoid suffering, it is living in falsehood. Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood. In them, intelligence is neither a good, nor even an asset. The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Description: Simone Weil quote: When we are the victims of illusion we do not feel it to be an illusion but a reality. It is the same perhaps with evil. Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Description: Simone Weil quote: We can know only 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.

Description: Simone Weil quote: It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.

Description: Simone Weil quote: Psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

Description: Simone Weil quote: The reality of this world is necessity. The part of man which is in this world is the part which is in bondage to necessity and subject to the misery of need.

Description: Simone Weil quote: “It is not only in literature that fiction generates immorality. It does it also in life itself. For the substance of our life is almost exclusively composed of fiction.”

Description: Simone Weil quote: If all men, by the act of being born, are destined to suffer violence, that is a truth to which the empire of circumstances closes their minds.

Description: Simone Weil quote: God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Description: Simone Weil quote: “The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”

Description: Simone Weil quote: The human soul has need of truth and of freedom of expression.

Description: Simone Weil quote: “Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

Description: Simone Weil quote: The human soul has need of some solitude and privacy and also of some social life.

Description: Simone Weil quote: There is a reality outside the world, that is to say, outside space and time, outside man's mental universe, outside any sphere whatsoever that is accessible to human faculties. Corresponding to this reality, at the centre of the human heart, is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.