simone weil – Page 4 – Little Bristling Soul

[Evil is] a bad attempt to imitate God.

Simone Weil

Simone Weil, “SCIENCE, NECESSITY AND THE LOVE OF GOD”

Charles Wright from Appalachia

Martin Buber, I and Thou

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

Chris Kraus, Aliens & Anorexia

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, and without coming any nearer, the very being who is necessary to him as food

Simone Weil, Waiting for God, 205

After God has come in person, not only to visit the soul as he does for a long time beforehand, but to possess it and to transport its center near to his very heart, it is otherwise. The chicken has cracked its shell; it is outside the egg of the world.

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

[F]orce is that which turns both its wielders and its victims into things. That is to say, under the guise of subject-object relations, violence actually works to construct object-object relations between otherwise sentient beings.

Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty (via heteroglossia)

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

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 in himself and in the other.

“Friendship has something universal about it. It consists of loving a human being as we should like to be able to love each soul in particular of all those who go to make up the human race. As a geometrician looks at a particular figure in order to deduce the universal properties of the triangle, so he who knows how to love directs upon a particular human being a universal love. The consent to preserve an autonomy within ourselves and in others is essentially of a universal order”.

Chris Kraus, Aliens & Anorexia