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
thinking doe god-love
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
life order doe
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
glasses doe seeing
Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.
revolution doe mass
The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.
science doe worthless
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
doe charity humans
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
peace giving doe
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
doe violence
Time does us violence; it is the only violence.
fall thinking doe
It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.
teamwork taken sorrow
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
men giving debt
Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
pride men intelligent
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
felt power
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
culture instrument teachers
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.