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
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.
faith atheist atheism
Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith ; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
lost-everything periods lost
You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
nature sky roots
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
friendship two near-and-far
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
reason should gods-love
God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
simple roots effort
Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.
religion essentials knows
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
peace freedom 4th-of-july
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.