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
dangerous lure quantity
The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.
submission renunciation
Renunciation is submission to time.
effort salvation easiness
There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.
purity ability contemplating
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
fighting prejudice missions
All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.
greek matter firsts
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
country hate men
It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world--and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish--she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.
intellectual attention adherence
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
opposites transcendental contradictory
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
wisdom fun affliction
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
atheist believe order
In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.
israel rome atheism
Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive
prayer giving soul
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
renounce
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.