Simone Weil
Simone Weil
Simone Weil; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and political activist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth3 February 1909
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
reality joy
Joy is being fully aware of reality ...
winning justice sides
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.
imitation creation apprehension
The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.
evil excellence literature
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
sin humans wretchedness
Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
movement charity might
One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.
art art-is collectives
Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
world chance mere
We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
taken power secret
the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.
stars night thinking
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
greek matter firsts
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
veils
Necessity is God's veil.
divine-wisdom secret misery
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.
bears weight innocent
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.