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 atheist atheism
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
reality attachment want
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
power ends understood
Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
nature sky roots
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
people revolution opium
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
lost-everything periods lost
You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
faith lying soul
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
brother betrayal military
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.
god world language
The world is God's language to us.
definitions world study
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
religious heart son
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light [-] It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.
time would-be world
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
single solitude affection
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.
peace freedom 4th-of-july
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.