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
tyrants doors morality
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
thinking branches speed
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
evil way
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
beautiful sky
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
responsibility self self-responsibility
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
soul humans human-beings
The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.
crucible earth way
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
girl spiritual eye
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.
revolution doe mass
The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.
prayer children school
School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.
love country children
The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.
real independence sin
The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.
atheist objectivity majority
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
thinking crucifixion-of-christ envy
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.