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Full Idea
There are two goods - one which is the opposite of evil, and one which is the absolute. …That which we want is the absolute good. That which is within our reach is the good which is correlated with evil.
Gist of Idea
There are two goods - the absolute good we want, and the reachable opposite of evil
Source
Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace (9 extracts) [1943], p.142)
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'An Anthology' [Penguin 1986], p.142
A Reaction
Elsewhere she seems in tune with the thought of Nietzsche (whom she despised) that good and evil are false social constructs which are quite different from healthy values. Weil, of course, sees the absolute as transcendent.