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
soul violence eternity
Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
spiritual lying greatness
There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.
punishment soul needs
Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
stress writing biographies
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
truth errors truth-is
Truth is one, but error is manifold.
prayer father humanity
The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.
ideas fragility stories
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
intelligent aggravation intelligence
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
evil infinity hell
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
women hero order
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
errors perspective sometimes
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
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.
intelligent intelligence roles
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
education teacher teaching
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.