Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
From Simone Weil
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
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.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
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.
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
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