Simone Weil Roots Quotations

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.