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
imagine christ easier
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
color race needs
The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.
kindness optimistic mean-people
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
country peace war
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
order two humanity
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
time would-be world
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
patience humility humble
Humility is attentive patience.
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.
pride men intelligent
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
equality men thinking
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
oppression appearance economics
What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
silence cry indifferent
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
dream real joy
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
lost-everything periods lost
You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.