{"author":"Simone Weil","author_id":"Simone+Weil","total_quotes":79,"quotes":[{"text":"Humility is attentive patience.","author":"Simone Weil","tags":["humility","attentive "],"id":1556,"author_id":"Simone+Weil"},{"text":"It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves...To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save.","author":"Simone Weil","tags":["salvation"],"id":18468,"author_id":"Simone+Weil"},{"text":"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. ","author":"Simone Weil","tags":["reality","someone","attachment "],"id":23027,"author_id":"Simone+Weil"},{"text":"It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.","author":"Simone Weil","tags":["impossible","matter","possible "],"id":25154,"author_id":"Simone+Weil"},{"text":"The future is made of the same stuff as the present.","author":"Simone Weil","tags":["future"],"id":25185,"author_id":"Simone+Weil"},{"text":"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.","author":"Simone Weil","tags":["life","life is a","perfect "],"id":29268,"author_id":"Simone+Weil"},{"text":"God created through love and for love. God did not create anything except love itself, and the means to love. He created love in all its forms. He created beings capable of love from all possible distances. Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this agony beyond all others, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.","author":"Simone Weil","tags":["god","jesus","love","the cross","the crucifixion"],"id":52327,"author_id":"Simone+Weil"},{"text":"Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.","author":"Simone Weil","tags":["bureaucracy","democracy","fascism","military","police"],"id":53990,"author_id":"Simone+Weil"},{"text":"Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a determination necessarily arises from an obsession. It constitutes an utterly sterile effort to get rid of it. In such a case the light of attention is the only thing which is effective, and it is not compatible with a polemical intention.","author":"Simone Weil","tags":["attention","prejudice"],"id":61329,"author_id":"Simone+Weil"},{"text":"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.","author":"Simone Weil","tags":["hunger","human","human being "],"id":72335,"author_id":"Simone+Weil"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":79,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}