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
doors world way
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
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.
punishment soul needs
Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
science men names
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
teamwork taken sorrow
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
time spirit our-time
The only great spirit of our time.
failure sleep men
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.
two atheism purification
There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
obstacles source consolation
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
levers contradiction transcendence
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
desire may immortality
We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.
expression personality privilege
The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.
desire treasure misers
The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.