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
dangerous lure quantity
The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.
submission renunciation
Renunciation is submission to time.
thinking affliction paradise
If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.
order evil desire
If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.
renounce
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
fighting prejudice missions
All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.
purity ability contemplating
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
men two deny
Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
trying attention faults
We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
real believe past
It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God. This refusal does not presuppose any belief. It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind: that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary, are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.
steps action spirituality
[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.
truth desire impossible
It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
war preparation important
War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.
glasses doe seeing
Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.