Finished reading: Waiting for God by Simone Weil 📚
“The beautiful is that which we desire without wishing to eat it. We desire that it should be.”
“Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised. It is a virtue.”
“For a religion is known only from inside.”
“It is good to reflect on what forces us to come out of ourselves.”
“We want to get behind beauty, but we only find its surface.”
“It is because beauty has no end in view that it constitutes the only finality here below. For here below there are no ends. All things that we take for ends are means… It is more or less the same for all things that we call good.”
“Pain is the color of certain events.”
“There is no friendship where there is inequality.”
“When a human being is attached to another by a bond of affection which contains any degree of necessity, it is impossible that he should wish autonomy to be preserved both in himself and in the other… It is, however, made possible by the miraculous intervention of the supernatural. This miracle is friendship.”