more on this theme | more from this thinker | more from this text
Full Idea
Because affliction and truth need the same kind of attention …the spirit of justice and the spirit of truth are one. The spirit of justice and truth is nothing else be a certain kind of attention, which is pure love.
Gist of Idea
The spirit of justice needs the full attention of truth, and that attention is love
Source
Simone Weil (Human Personality [1943], p.92)
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'An Anthology' [Penguin 1986], p.92
A Reaction
I'm not sure about this as an observation, but as an inspiration it is very appealing, and (as so often with Weil) strikingly and attractively independent. I prefer love to arise naturally, rather than be a product of exhortation.