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 inspirational friendship
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?
beautiful fall tree
The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.
suffering chance hunger
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
inspirational motivational encouraging
I can, therefore I am.
war errors study
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics...
prayer attention
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
danger trembling existence
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
soul important needs
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
country war giving
When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.
thinking justice different
Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.
wealth rich mercy
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
beast imitation idolatry
The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.
beauty love-is sight
Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.
life real carpe-diem
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.