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
love-is abdication command
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
beauty pretty-girl giving
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
pain world degrees
On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.
nursing compassion listening
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
doe charity humans
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
attention awareness ecstasy
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
spiritual reality aggravation
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
stars giving tree
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
heart evil done
At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done
lying insomnia doors
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
science intellectual principles
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.
war prestige form
War is the supreme form of prestige.
sacred needs truth-is
The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.
time past crime
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.