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
love atheist atheism
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
truth-is
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
space grace void
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.
humility compassion oneself
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
time past crime
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
sacred needs truth-is
The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.
emptiness sin
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
forgiveness imagine knows
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
heart world longing
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
wish faults made
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
appreciate flavor form
Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
science intellectual principles
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.
people revolution opium
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
brother betrayal military
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.