Simone Weil Two Quotations

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.