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
wall hate men
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
god world language
The world is God's language to us.
live-in-the-moment today saint
Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.
light faults inability
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
country suffering humiliation
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
humility order intellectual
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
errors perspective sometimes
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
choices world worship
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
atheist acceptance order
All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.
prayer father humanity
The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.
philosophy science years
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
perfect desire world
All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.
evil infinity hell
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
money firsts algebra
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.