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-you self existence
Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being....
life war attention-and-love
If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.
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.
distance love-is agony
Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.
love-is radiance pure-love
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
creation acts-of-love perpetual
Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.
love country children
The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.
love fall soul
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
love-is abdication command
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
love atheist atheism
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
reason should gods-love
God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
love inspirational friendship
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?
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 love-is light
Love is not consolation, it is light.