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
science mind village
The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty ...
sacrifice balance looks
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
prayer heart soul
prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.
definitions world study
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
doe violence
Time does us violence; it is the only violence.
peace giving doe
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
solitude wish virtue
To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).
faith lying soul
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
friendship art joy
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
friendship distance views
Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.
opposites soul virtue
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
philosophical metaphor universe
The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.
distance sin wrong-direction
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
religious heart son
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light [-] It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.