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
powerful years light
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
self-confidence people doubt
How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
fire challenges
Fire destroys that which feeds it.
future stuff made
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
pain world degrees
On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.
relevant eternal
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
nursing compassion listening
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
absence feels
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
imagination suffering facts
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
spiritual reality aggravation
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
doe charity humans
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
waiting precious-gifts
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
pain roots evil
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
attention awareness ecstasy
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.