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
damnation obeying-god way
If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.
modern-life action life-is
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
poison disease soil
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
fake-people purpose doctrine
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
submission renunciation
Renunciation is submission to time.
purity ability contemplating
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
opposites transcendental contradictory
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
renounce
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
innocence ifs
What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?
caves
one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.
divine-wisdom secret misery
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.
filling-up law space
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
men giving debt
Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
rewards energy degradation
Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.