Simone Weil Quotes

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

the truth is often a mixed message

There is always room for at least two truths.

I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one must begin to talk about it. In such a case the truth lies not in the middle, but rather all around, like a sack, which, with each new opinion one stuffs into it, changes its form, and becomes more and more firm.

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

"And" seems to me closest. "And" nods toward the real. And "and" is the path to perspective. To feel and see from more angles and know all of them true, even the incomprehensible ones, even the ones that contradict one another.

The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.