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
order two humanity
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
patience humility humble
Humility is attentive patience.
oppression appearance economics
What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
inspirational memorable void
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
country peace war
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
happiness real evil
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
emptiness sin
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
hurt men compassion
Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.
lying ideas evil
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.
friendship two near-and-far
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
imagine christ easier
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
moving roots uprooting
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
believe history matter
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
struggle grief serenity
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.