Simone Weil Quotes

Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells. Yet without realizing it, each day each one of us is visited by beauty. When you actually listen to people, it is surprising how often beauty is mentioned. A world without beauty would be unbearable.

Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.

What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?" He shook his head, the smile rueful now. "Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's YOU. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.

I look with wonder at that which is before me.

I try not to get impressed. I just try to look at what I see.

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.

There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

You are so beautiful to me.

To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.