Simone Weil Attention Quotations

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.