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
machines
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
money firsts algebra
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.
rewards energy degradation
Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.
men slavery
Man alone can enslave man.
humility exercise pride
There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.
people personality architecture
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.
rights rely-upon flavor
The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention; and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at.
evil church mixtures
A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.
spiritual men order
It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.
inspirational inspiring real
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
mother father meditation
Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
humility acceptance knowing
Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul , not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change . There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.
ideas weakness essentials
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.
evil morality kind
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.