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
kindness generosity empathy
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
equality degrees needs
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
faith-in-god injustice victim
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
soul important needs
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
suffering chance hunger
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
kindness optimistic mean-people
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
time would-be world
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
pride men intelligent
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
oppression appearance economics
What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
lost-everything periods lost
You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
doe violence
Time does us violence; it is the only violence.
opposites soul virtue
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
truth-is
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
time past crime
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.