Simone Weil Quotes

I can't do anything in moderation.

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Extremes are dangerous.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

In every extreme there is vice and not virtue.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.