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
science men names
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
fake-people purpose doctrine
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
education children creating
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.
soul violence eternity
Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
spiritual lying greatness
There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.
punishment soul needs
Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
stress writing biographies
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
truth errors truth-is
Truth is one, but error is manifold.
prayer father humanity
The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.
real history imagination
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
ideas fragility stories
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
intelligent aggravation intelligence
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
evil infinity hell
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
women hero order
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.