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
brother betrayal military
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.
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.
religious heart son
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light [-] It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.
time would-be world
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
single solitude affection
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.
peace freedom 4th-of-july
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
god matter impossible
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
giving evolution oppression
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.
god forgiving crime
If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.
thank-you gratitude joy
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
science mind village
The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty ...
religion essentials knows
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
real civilization intellectual
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.