When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. Simone Weil Next Quote Humility is attentive patience. - Simone Weil Previous Quote If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. - Simone Weil