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
choices world worship
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
doors world way
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
thinking world-suffering want-something
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
perfect desire world
All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.
world chance mere
We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
pain world degrees
On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.
heart world longing
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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.
time would-be world
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
environmental world matter
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
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.