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
art works-of-art
The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.
lying greatness civilization
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
beautiful eternity mark
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
beautiful real attention
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
beautiful reality evil
In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
thinking crucifixion-of-christ envy
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
happiness fighting thinking
I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.
stars night thinking
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
lying insomnia doors
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
thinking justice different
Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.
thinking branches speed
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
thinking doe god-love
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
thinking affliction paradise
If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.
thinking mind vision
Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.